The Morisprudence Model for Applied Ethics

  • Norbert Paulo
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Abstract

I shall now provide a more abstract statement of the framework for methods in applied ethics endorsed throughout the preceding chapters before closing the book with arguments for this framework. Throughout this book, I have been concerned with the relation between abstract moral principles and concrete moral problems or cases. My aim has been to clear the black box between the input from ethical theories (the moral principles one endorses and the moral problem one faces) and the output (a particular solution to the problem). I hope to have shown that and how methods help to lift the lid of the black box.

Keywords

Virtue Ethic Ethical Theory Moral Rule Applied Ethic Common Morality 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Norbert Paulo
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  1. 1.Department of Social Sciences and EconomicsUniversity of SalzburgSalzburgAustria

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