THE TASTE FOR ETHICS

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 7
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Biology > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Biology.

This book marks a new departure in ethics. In our culture ethics has first and foremost been a question of ‘the good life’ in relation to other people. Central to this ethic was friendship, inspired by Greek thought, and the caritas concept from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. But no early moral tea...