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How is ethics shaped by knowledge?

The question ‘How do we know what is good?’ is concerned with how we know what we know about ethics and informs a serious approach to moral theory. Peter Manning looks at how moral philosophy addresses this question

All exam boards: ethics options

When studying ethics we often focus on the detail of individual theories and then make comparisons between them. At one level this is fine, and it can be fun to justify why you prefer utilitarianism over Kantian ethics or vice versa. However, this approach may not do justice to an analysis of ethics. Ethical theory does not exist in a vacuum, and this article will show how it finds its form and structure in relation to how we define what knowledge is.

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