Ethical Ambiguity

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Ethical Ambiguity

Introduction

Meta-ethics is a branch of philosophy that explains the nature of ethical descriptions and conceptions and assumptions propounded by moral theories. Humanity as a whole faces a world full of varying judgments regarding what is ethically cogent or wrong. In today's democratic society, people face a dilemma in their line of duty or when handling social issues at family levels. In such times, an individual is obliged to maintain acceptable ethical stands and justify their ethical takes (Keith, 2017. However, it has proved hard for unidirectional consensus in some controversial social issues such as the morality of capital punishment, abortion and many more others. The essay dwells on elaborating two versions of moral realism, namely, the naturalistic approach and the non-naturalistic approach.

Naturalism in ethics entails determining morally wrong or right acts or decisions based...