Descriptive Ethics:
claims about what some person(s) or society(ies) believe(s) to be morally right or wrongNormative Ethics:
claims about what is morally right or wrongMetaethics:
claims about the nature of moral right or wrong
| Descriptive ethics: | social scientists (sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, . . .) |
| Normative ethics: | preachers, parents, normative ethical theorists (philosophers) |
| Metaethics: | philosophers |