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Title: The Moral Significance of our Biological Nature
Author(s): ZWART, Hub
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 1    Issue: 2   Date: June 1994   
Pages: 71-78
DOI: 10.2143/EP.1.2.630096

Abstract :
In the previous article the hermeneutical approach to ethics was outlined. In my presentation, I would like to illustrate further the methodological consequences of this approach by using two points in contemporary applied ethics. The question is: to what extent is the hermeneutical approach casuistically applicable. We start with the presupposition that the hermeneutical approach does not offer answers to the question of current applied ethics — namely, to the question of what is or is not acceptable in a particular problem situation — but rather, intends to clarify our moral, i.e. normative, response to problem situations. It tries to offer a precise articulation of the normative components of a successful moral decision, without presuming its detailed result.

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