Question

ingrid believes local businesses have obligations to their community.
which branch of ethics does ingrid’s belief represent?

○ descriptive ethics

○ normative ethics

○ metaethics

○ applied ethics

Explanation:

To determine the branch of ethics, we analyze each option:

• Descriptive ethics focuses on describing moral beliefs, not prescribing obligations.
• Normative ethics concerns what should be (moral norms/obligations), but Ingrid’s belief is about applying ethics to a specific context (business - community).
• Metaethics deals with the nature of ethics (e.g., what “good” means), not specific obligations.
• Applied ethics applies ethical theories to real - world issues (like business - community obligations). Ingrid’s belief about local businesses’ obligations to their community is applying ethics to a practical situation (business and community relations), so it’s applied ethics.

Answer:

Applied ethics (assuming the last option is "Applied ethics"; if the option was labeled, e.g., D. Applied ethics, then "D. Applied ethics")