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Document Details : Title: An Agenda for Applied Ethics Author(s): STEEL, Carlos , BOUCKAERT, Luc , SELLING, Joseph A. , VANDEVELDE, Toon Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Date: April 1995 Pages: 38-50 DOI: 10.2143/EP.2.1.563070 Abstract : Concern and interest for questions related to ethics has increased enormously in recent years both in society as a whole and in universities. This in itself is quite an astounding fact. On a variety of levels, we see how in our contemporary Western culture moral virtues have become blurred. Not only has actual behaviour been severed from ay sense of moral regulation (e.g. consider sexual behaviour), but people are less and less likely to accept with any moralising point of view which could confront them with rules and values: 'No preaching, no taboos. Anything goes as long as no one gets hurt.' People defend the free development of personal preference and a personal outlook on life. |
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