This essay focuses on to philosophical ethics.”What makes an inquiry a philosophical one is reflective generality and a style of argument that claims to be rationally persuasive.”

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Milgram’s obedience study generated a great deal of controversy regarding its ethical implications.  It is important to be aware of ethical questions raise by research.  Take a position regarding whether or not Milgram’s research was done ethically.  Support your position with well-reasoned arguments.  To assure that you don’t just give the same old perspective, you must review the following two articles to assist you.

You might even find that your opinion of Milgram actually changes.  Baumrind, D. (1964).  Some thoughts on the ethics of research:  After reading Milgram’s “Behavioral Study of Obedience.”  American Psychologist,  19, 421-423.  Milgram, S. (1964).  Issues in the study of obedience.  A reply to Baumrind.  American Psychologist, 19, 848-852.

The word ethics in English refers to several things.

It can refer to philosophical ethics or moral philosophy—a project that attempts to use reason to answer various kinds of ethical questions. As the English moral philosopher Bernard Williams writes, attempting to explain moral philosophy: “What makes an inquiry a philosophical one is reflective generality and a style of argument that claims to be rationally persuasive.”

Normative ethics is the study of ethical action.

It is the branch of ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because normative ethics examines standards. The rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts.

Normative ethics is also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an empirical investigation of people’s moral beliefs.

To put it another way, descriptive ethics would be concern with determining what proportion. People believe that killing is always wrong, while normative ethics is concerned with whether it is correct to hold such a belief. Hence, normative ethics is sometimes called prescriptive rather than descriptive. However, on certain versions of the meta-ethical view call moral realism. Moral facts are both descriptive and prescriptive at the same time.