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This 6 page paper begins by describing and defining descriptive ethics, normative ethics and analytical ethics. Analytical ethics is also called meta-ethics and critical ethics. It is referred to as meta-ethics because it analyzed and examines normative ethics and moral terminology. The writer is asked to apply these ethics to management and explains that the three are inter-related and may, in some cases, represent a sequential study but that descriptive ethics is more in the social science domain than in the philosophy domain. Application is illustrated through two actual examples of companies who responded vastly differently when the company was threatened. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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group of people. Descriptive ethics describes what people actually value and does not comment on what people should value (normative ethics does this). It is the study of how people
actually behave (Goguen, 2001). Descriptive ethics describe what is actually being valued and how people actually behave; normative ethics are not intended to make judgements nor is this branch intended
to say what people should do or believe. It simply describes what is really going on (Goguen, 2001). It is possible for descriptive ethics to be used as the foundation
for normative ethics. Descriptive ethics is more compatible with the field of social science than it is in ethics found in philosophy (College of the Holy Cross, nd). 2.
Normative ethics. This branch attempts to draw conclusions about the justice of some law or the value of a particular conduct. These philosophers tend to systematize their conclusions under general
principles. An example would be the greatest happiness principle as put forth by John Stuart Mill or the categorical imperative put forth by Emmanuel Kant. Normative ethics talks about what
people should value (Goguen, 2001). Normative ethics, then, attempts to set up the rules of conduct for people (College of the Holy Cross, nd). 3. Analytical ethics. This branch of
ethics surveys normative ethics for the purpose of clarifying both its problems and its terminology and the meaning of moral terms (In Steppe, nd). In this branch, researchers, philosophers, etc.
examine the reasons others used to reach their conclusions. Analytical ethics is also called meta-ethics and critical ethics. thus, analytical ethics is an analysis of the presuppositions of normative ethics
(College of the Holy Cross, nd). As can be seen immediately, the three branches - descriptive, normative and analytical are inter-related. In many cases, normative ethics evolves from descriptive ethics.
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