Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics?: Invited Address to the Society of Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2005

If, like Hegel and Dewey, one takes a historicist, anti-Platonist view of moral progress, one will be dubious about the idea that moral theory can be more than the systematization of the widely-shared moral intuitions of a certain time and place. One will follow Shelley, Dewey, and Patricia Werhane...

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Main Author: Rorty, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 369-380
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Summary:If, like Hegel and Dewey, one takes a historicist, anti-Platonist view of moral progress, one will be dubious about the idea that moral theory can be more than the systematization of the widely-shared moral intuitions of a certain time and place. One will follow Shelley, Dewey, and Patricia Werhane in emphasizing the role of the imagination in making moral progress possible. Taking this stance will lead one to conclude that although philosophy is indeed relevant to applied ethics, it is not more relevant than many other fields of study (such as history, law, political science, anthropology, literature, and theology).
ISSN:2153-3326
Contains:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/beq200616327