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Title: In Search of a Fundamental Basis for Ethical Reflection
Author(s): SELLING, Joseph
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 1    Issue: 1   Date: March 1994   
Pages: 13-21
DOI: 10.2143/EP.1.1.630101

Abstract :
Ethical questions rarely present themselves in an abstract manner. Situations we encounter in our daily personal and professional lives sometimes cause us to hesitate, to reflect, even for a moment, about the ethical quality of possible modes of acting or withholding action (action and omission). These situations can be relatively trivial, encountered with such frequency that we do not give them much thought (e.g., parking in a no-parking zone). However, they can also be the origin of major questions that propose clear ethical issues, but that do not immediately include any indication of how we should deal with them (deceiving participants in a psychological experiment, being asked to determine the absolutely minimum standards for building materials).

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