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Part of the book series: Synthese Library ((SYLI,volume 31))

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It is very difficult to talk about ethics in an objective and dispassionate way when we are witness today, as we were witness before, of human actions which are opposed to all ethical values. It seems so futile and irrelevant to talk about these values when they are violated all over the world.

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Paul Weingartner Gerhard Zecha

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© 1970 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland

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Weisskopf, V.F. (1970). Science and Ethics. In: Weingartner, P., Zecha, G. (eds) Induction, Physics and Ethics. Synthese Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3305-3_17

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