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Document Details : 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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