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Practical or Special Ethics? Reflection on the Nature of Applied Ethics as a Discipline

Luo Ya-lin

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Applied ethics is always regarded as applied or practical ethics in contrast to theoretical ethics or ethical theory, a new paradigm of the ethics or an interdiscipline beyond the realm of ethics. This opinion is based on a misunderstanding of ethics and its concept of application. Applied ethics as a discipline addresses ethical issues in special fields. And as such it is different from general ethics, but still remains in the realm of ethics.

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Applied ethics is always regarded as applied or practical ethics in contrast to theoretical ethics or ethical theory, a new paradigm of the ethics or an interdiscipline beyond the realm of ethics. This opinion is based on a misunderstanding of ethics and its concept of application. Applied ethics as a discipline addresses ethical issues in special fields. And as such it is different from general ethics, but still remains in the realm of ethics.

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Applied ethics is always regarded as applied or practical ethics in contrast to theoretical ethics or ethical theory, a new paradigm of the ethics or an interdiscipline beyond the realm of ethics. This opinion is based on a misunderstanding of ethics and its concept of application. Applied ethics as a discipline addresses ethical issues in special fields. And as such it is different from general ethics, but still remains in the realm of ethics.

Key concepts: Meta-ethics, Applied ethics, Information ethics, Ethics of technology, Normative ethics, Realm, Nursing ethics, Engineering ethics

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