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Descriptive ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Descriptive ethics , also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality. It contrasts with prescriptive or normative ethics, which is the study of ethical theories that...
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This review essay surveys recent North-American literature in comparative ethics, focusing on issues in methodology. ... This article surveys recent North-American literature in comparative ethics, focusing on issues in methodology. The variety of approaches can be ordered along a spectrum, from those that posit a...
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Our primary focus has been, and will continue to be, biomedical ethics, but we are increasingly putting time and resources into issues related to ecology, environmental ethics, and care for nonhuman animals.
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Amazon.com: Islam and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics
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The Ethikon Series publishes comparative studies on ethical issues of current importance. By bringing scholars representing a diversity of moral viewpoints into structured dialogue with one another, the series aims to broaden the scope of ethical debate. ... The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives.
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Acknowledgement: I am deeply indebted to my advisor, Charlie Hallisey, who developed and taught this course at Harvard ... Return to Natalie's main site...
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On this perilous frontier of biomedical ethics, the author suggests that the right to be treated as a person is an effective source of motivation for physicians to respect the dignity of geriatric patients in the context of high-technology medicine.
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What does it mean in terms of guessing and using analogies in comparative ethics? The history of every single nation is to be understood by commonly shared social values, traditions, and political structures.
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Comparative ethics potentially underwrites any first order moral disagreement in the same way it does Asian values. Lee and Patten, as surely as Texans and Vermonters share some of their moral culture and disagree about other parts.
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I complain that advocates of Chinese Values have not assumed the burden of showing that Chinese norms validly warrant authoritarian or communitarian attitudes. They rest too quickly on description of Confucian or dominant Chinese beliefs about political ethics...
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