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Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality. It contrasts with prescriptive or normative ethics...

g. if, or when, abortion is acceptable). Normative ethics is also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an empirical investigation of people's...

descriptive ethics and are studied in fields like anthropology, sociology, and history rather than normative ethics. Some systems of normative ethics...

evolutionary ethics is quite broad. Supporters of evolutionary ethics have argued that it has important implications in the fields of descriptive ethics, normative...

are seen to be made and to conflicts between different claims made. Descriptive ethics is the branch of philosophy which studies morality in this sense....

business organization. Business ethics have two dimensions, normative business ethics or descriptive business ethics. As a corporate practice and a career...

between the fields: Descriptive ethics: What do people think is right? Normative ethics (prescriptive): How should people act? Applied ethics: How do we take...

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psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy, and is the foundation of descriptive ethics. Starting from a young age, people can make moral decisions about...

that incorporates value judgments Prescriptive ethics, as distinct from meta-ethics and descriptive ethics Other uses include: Medical prescription, a plan...

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conflicts between such values. Pragmatic ethics has been criticized for conflating descriptive ethics with normative ethics, as describing the way people do make...

Behavioral ethics is a field of social scientific research that seeks to understand how individuals behave when confronted with ethical dilemmas. It refers...

Marxist ethics is a doctrine of morality and ethics that is based on, or derived from, Marxist philosophy. Marx did not directly write about ethical issues...

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metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied...

part of human development, eventually joined Gilligan in starting a descriptive ethics of relationship conduct in what they called the ethical community...

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could be resolved through mutual dialogue grounded in comparative descriptive ethics. Groups such as Amnesty International and War Resisters International...

A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information...