⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: D. ▰ Sources. 〓 Books [B] ◥ University. {q} PhD. {tr} Training. {R} L' Review. [B] PhD. ⚫ USA. ↂ EndNote. ☝️ Machi (2016) Descriptive Reasoning. Descriptive ethics. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Study of people's beliefs about morality Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality.[1] It contrasts with prescriptive or normative ethics, which is the study of ethical theories that prescribe how people ought to act, and with meta-ethics, which is the study of what ethical terms and theories actually refer to.
The following examples of questions that might be considered in each field illustrate the differences between the fields: Descriptive ethics: What do people think is right? Description[edit] Because descriptive ethics involves empirical investigation, it is a field that is usually investigated by those working in the fields of evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology or anthropology. Value theory can be either normative or descriptive but is usually descriptive. Lawrence Kohlberg: An example of descriptive ethics[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] See also[edit]