An adjustable-rate mortgage, commonly referred to as an ARM, may start off with a fixed rate for a specified amount of time (one to five years is common) but will then adjust to the market index and continue to adjust on a regular scheduleâeither up or down.
The Practical Ethics minor is designed to familiarize students with the nature and varieties of moral reasoning that are applied to areas of everyday experience, such as: business, marketing, management, and sales; medicine and the delivery of health care; law enforcement; media and public relations; social service careers; civic life; and intimate life in the roles of friend, lover, partner, parent, child, man or woman, and racialized person.
Metaethics. Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is.he Normative Relevance of Metaethics. Since philosophical ethics is often conceived of as a practical branch of philosophyâaiming at providing concrete moral guidance and justificationsâmetaethics sits awkwardly as a largely abstract enterprise that says little or nothing about real-life moral issues.