the need for a new ethics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Ethics, as a field of study and as a practice, should confront the deep, normative questions of its time.
Reflection on ethics is carried out by humans embedded in historical eras and in distinct cultures. All societies, no matter how rigid or traditional, face the future. They cannot avoid struggling with new problems and new ethical questions. Ethics, therefore, is not a static set of rules. It is a necessary human activity – the attempt by individuals and societies to respond to quandaries created by changing conditions, unexpected issues, and new ways of thinking.
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