Not a rigid set of rules, but navigation through complex moral terrain: The fundamentally revised new edition understands applied ethics as a topological practice of orientation. Rather than offering isolated fields of applied ethics, the book presents a functional multi-level architecture that precisely interlinks semantic, ontological, epistemic and practical questions.
- Reorganisation of the problem areas: Medical, animal and environmental ethics are opened up in terms of the complexity of moral address – ranging from direct to mediated responsibility.
- Focus on fittingness rather than ultimate justification: The aim is the reflected translation between experience and argument (Resultant Fittingness) for the concrete individual case.
- Ethics as a chart table: A practice-oriented set of instruments for well-founded judgements amid real conflicts of values – analytically sharp, methodologically open and close to life.
Now newly available in its 2nd edition, with a completely new text and a new method, published by Nomos/Alber.
Alongside my teaching in the field of ethics and practical philosophy, I have written an introduction that is available online in various ways as well as in a print version. The book is topic-oriented. It serves to convey the many topics of philosophical ethics in a didactic manner. In an engagement with the text oriented towards systematic discussion, a particular subject area is to be methodically explored in each case.
ISBN: 978-3-7460-4508-5 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-3-7460-5523-7(Hardback)
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