{"id":8453,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moral_philosophy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:52","slug":"moral_philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moral_philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A branch of philosophy concerned with systems of ethics, justice, moral problems and moral judgments. &nbsp;It consists of three sub-fields: metaethics (addresses question about the nature of morality), normative ethics (provision of &nbsp;moral framework for being able judge between &#8216;good&#8217; and &#8216;bad&#8217;), and applied ethics (application of theories of ethics to specific issues such as the rights of children). &nbsp;One of the inspirational sources for contemporary moral philosophy was the British analytic philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/anscombe\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/anscombe\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G.E.M (Elizabeth) Anscombe<\/a> (1919-2001), starting with an influential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~mthompso\/readings\/mmp.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~mthompso\/readings\/mmp.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper <\/a>published in 1958. &nbsp;. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"justice\">Justice<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_judgments\">Moral judgments<\/a>, <a href=\"morality\">Morality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A branch of philosophy concerned with systems of ethics, justice, moral problems and moral judgments. &nbsp;It consists of three sub-fields: metaethics (addresses question about the nature of morality), normative ethics (provision of &nbsp;moral framework for being able judge between &#8216;good&#8217; and &#8216;bad&#8217;), and applied ethics (application of theories of ethics to specific issues such as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/moral_philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moral philosophy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}