Implications Of Ethical Theory

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Although humanity has always strived to understand the meaning of right and wrong, it is not any closer to getting any definite answers. However, people need beliefs and values to live their lives. They require a system of moral principles to make decisions. In other words, people consciously or unconsciously apply ethics in their daily lives, whether they believe in it or not. Whether people consider ethics to originate from religions, philosophies and/or cultures, nevertheless it provides a moral map for resolving ethical dilemmas (BBC, 2014). Thus, it is important to identify and differentiate the various ethical theories and their implications…show more content…
Thus, metaethics is not about discovering the right action or doing good, it is about how humans determine if something is good or not and whether we are obligated to take the right action or not (Sullivan