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Ethics is not a special science that can be handled as a separate entity. It is based on philosophical cosmology (world view) and philosophical anthropology (view of man). The starting point of the study of ethics or an ethical enquiry should, therefore, be the basic philosophical stance of the individual or group. The radical Christian philosophy, or the philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, is taken as an example to show the influence of its basic tenets on nursing ethics.
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Uys, L.R. (1985). The Implication of Radical Christian Philosophy for Nursing Ethics. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S. (eds) Nursing Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82468-5_38
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