The Challenge of Social Ethics

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dc.contributor.author	Larsen, Øjvind	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:23:40Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:23:40Z
dc.date.issued	2005-03-23T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	8791181895	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6438
dc.description.abstract	Modern global society has seen dramatic changes that throw us into impenetrable ethical problems of a kind never before witnessed in history. By this means, ethical problems constitute the locus of our confrontation with our own life situation. It is this condition that I take to be of fundamental importance when one undertakes to reflect upon the meaning of ethics today. If we approach the issue from the point of view of the history of ideas, we find that throughout the whole of the history of philosophy there have been a series of different attempts to articulate an ethics. Most of them address our concerns about how a human being ought to act in order to realise his or her life in the best or most correct way. I will return to the array of suggestions that have been offered in this regard. What is important for my purposes, meanwhile, is that there is some-thing that precedes ethical considerations, namely, the fact that ethics imposes itself upon the indi-vidual as a vital problem, and as one that cannot be escaped.	en_US
dc.format.extent	25 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	MPP Working paper;2005-003	en_US
dc.title	The Challenge of Social Ethics	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt05mar23 miel	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi
dc.contributor.departmentshort	LPF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	MPP
dc.description.notes	English Summary of Doctoral Thesis Den Samfundsetiske Udfordring	en_US
dc.idnumber	8791181895	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2005	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	A Treatise on Modernity and Negation	en_US