Normative ethics

The term Normative Ethics describes those large range of philosophical ethics, the judgment on the moral action in this case the balance as between alternative courses of action, or between concrete value judgments or preference determines the general principles of such judgments.

The former is often designated as " special ethics ", the latter as "general ethics." Another major area of ethics in addition to normative ethics is analyzed the meta-ethics, the function, status and content of ethical speech in general. Often beside the still Applied Ethics is distinguished, which is usually treated in terms of specific areas of activity that are also referred to as so-called area of ​​ethics, such as media ethics, animal ethics or bioethics.