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Document Details : Title: Three Methods in Applied Ethics Subtitle: A Critical Review Author(s): VAN GERWEN, Jef Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Date: December 1996 Pages: 184-193 DOI: 10.2143/EP.3.4.563026 Abstract : How does one teach applied ethics, and more concretely, business ethics? Which different methods are available? When I use the term 'method', I am not only referring to certain particular techniques, such as the selection and analysis of 'hard cases', the discussion of dillemas or the drafting of codes of conduct, but also to typical models of thought: how does one conceive moral issues or attitudes within a professional setting? According to my experience, three sorts of method emerge as fominant ways of conceiving ethics: (1) the model of the legal code, (2) the case method, and (3) the method of corporate or institutional analysis. |
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