Contextual Ethics

Zusatztext

<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Moral philosophy has traditionally strived towards abstraction and universalization, its claims tending to leave behind the specificity of bodies, individuals&rsquo; lives, situations, culture, and history. Yet there are ways of thinking and doing moral philosophy that do not leave context behind but make it their. This makes it a point , never to lose sight of context, to place it at the centre of ethical investigations. To present and defend the richness and validity of this approach to ethics his is , at any rate, the claim and the ambition of this volume. </span>Placed in the new field of <em>contextual ethics</em>, the anthology presents articles that focus on issues ranging from the theoretical and the methodological &ndash; Does taking context into account imply relativism? Can the normative and the descriptive in ethics be separated? How does moral change occur in the thick of everyday life? &ndash; to applied issues in biomedical, animal, and environmental ethics. The volume opens with a programmatic chapter on <em>contextual ethics</em> that traces its historical roots, its most central themes and methodological issues, and its relation to different traditions in contemporary ethics.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p class="x_MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" data-ogsc="black" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Anne-Marie S. Christensen </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" data-ogsc="black">is Professor of Ethics at Philosophy, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern, Denmark.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Niklas Forsberg</strong> is head of research in the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-ogsc="black" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Raffaele Rodogno </span></strong><span data-ogsc="black">Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne and The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, SHS Porogramme, Switzerland. </span></p>

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