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Title: The True, the Good and the Practical
Author(s): HALDANE, John
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 4    Issue: 4   Date: December 1997   
Pages: 237-242
DOI: 10.2143/EP.4.4.562984

Abstract :
In his paper A Philosophical Approach to Professional Ethics, Professor de Stexhe offers a very rich and interesting set of reflections on the possible foundations of professional ethics. First he constructs a compelling problematic arising from the diverse but intersecting dimensions in which ethical action is located. Then he describes a task, or more accurately a series of tasks, involving a skilfully choreographed set of dialectal movements between the various moments or conditioning features of action.

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