normative ethical theory

C5015
concept

A normative ethical theory is a systematic framework that aims to determine which actions are morally right or wrong and why, by providing principles or rules to guide moral decision-making.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
normative ethical theory canonical 3
Christian ethical theory 2
African-centered ethical framework 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: normative ethical theory
Generated description
A normative ethical theory is a systematic framework that aims to determine which actions are morally right or wrong and why, by providing principles or rules to guide moral decision-making.

Instances (10)

Instance Via concept surface
Utilitarianism
Nguzo Saba African-centered ethical framework
secular humanism ethical worldview
Christian realism Christian ethical theory
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism Christian ethical theory
consequentialism
act utilitarianism utilitarian theory
preference utilitarianism form of utilitarianism
Kantianism deontological ethics
just war theory
surface form: Just war theory
normative theory of war