Why is the search for the foundations of ethics so frustrating?
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Summary
At least three times it has been the moral philosophers who have been summoned: in the twelfth century when "Ethica" took on the meaning transmitted to the authors' word "ethics", in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when a shared, secular rational form of moral justification was required to fill the place left empty by the diminution of religious authority.
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- 1979-08-01
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Psychology, Engineering ethics, Social psychology, Engineering
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