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Discourse ethics (a.k.a. communicative ethics or procedural ethics) refers to a contemporary philosophical perspective and specifically to moral theory that advocates the only way to live peacefully and have fair rules is to get all people potentially affected to engage in reasonable argumentation, while acknowledging the moral pluralism of our societies and the lack of a recognized authority to establish what is good and bad and what is right and wrong.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Discourse Ethics. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_202
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