Furthermore this entails recognizing that we, as individual persons, have intrinsic worth, and we should respect ourselves as well as others. It maintains that there are just some things that are required of us to do despite any inclinations we may have regarding our desires or possible outcomes of actions. For instance, the right to life might be said to have the negative duty to refrain from taking other people's lives, or maybe even the positive duty to help protect people's lives. Positive Duties - duties to do something. Negative Duties - duties to refrain from doing something.
Ethics is a very broad concept that reaches into motivation, intent.
Theories like utilitarianism or the work of Immanuel Kant are considered conduct ethics. Virtue ethics was predominant with such philosophers as Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. Descriptive - Theories which describe the way things are . Normative - Theories which explore the way things should be . Involuntary Euthanasia - This is when the patient is not given treatment or allowed to die against his will.