Difference Between Ethics And Normative Ethics

Ethics is personal and is an individual behavior that pertains to own consciousness to decide what is good or bad. Morality on other hand is based on societal values.

Utilitarianism is trying to maximize benefit for the most including self. It is a theory in normative ethics. Altruism is trying to maximize benefit for all excluding self. Egoism is satisfying own self. Bentham’s Hypothesis states that Altruism and utilitarianism are a form of egoism only

Karpmen Drama Triangle was told wherein we had three roles, prosecuter, rescuer and victim.

Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, for example, physician-assisted suicide, while nonetheless agreeing at the more abstract level of a general normative theory such as Utilitarianism, so too may people who disagree at the level of a general normative theory nonetheless agree about the fundamental existence and status of morality itself, or vice versa. In this way, metaethics may be thought of as a highly abstract way of thinking philosophically about morality. For this reason, metaethics is also occasionally referred to as “second-order” moral theorizing, to distinguish it from the “first-order” level of normative theory.

Normative ethics is the attempt to