Metaethics is concerned with the nature of ethical judgments and theories. Since the beginning of the 20th century much work in metaethics has focused on the logical and semantic aspects of moral language. Some major metaethical theories are naturalism‚ intuitionism‚ emotivism‚ and prescriptivism. Applied ethics‚ as the name implies‚ consists of the application of normative ethical theories to practical moral problems . Among the major fields of applied ethics are bioethics‚ business ethics‚ legal ethics
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IRIE International Review of Information Ethics ISSN 1614-1687 Vol. 6 (12/2006) Ethics in Robotics Editors Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro (Editor in Chief) University of Applied Sciences‚ Stuttgart‚ Germany‚ Wolframstr. 32‚ D-70191 Stuttgart E-Mail: rafael@capurro.de Prof. Dr. Thomas Hausmanninger University of Augsburg‚ Germany‚ Universitätsstr. 10 ‚ D-86135 Augsburg‚ E-Mail: thomas.hausmanninger@kthf.uniaugsburg.de Dr. Karsten Weber European University Viadrina‚ Frankfurt (Oder)‚ Germany
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AUSTIN’S COMMAND AND SOVEREIGNTY THEORY Positivism : British Theories* The start of the nineteenth century might be taken as marking the beginning of the positivist movement. It represented a reaction against the a priori methods of thinking that characterised the preceding age. Prevailing theories of natural law shared the feature of turning away from the realities of actual law in order to discover in nature or reason principles of universal validity. Actual laws were then explained or condemned
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Southern Cross University ePublications@SCU Theses 2006 A study of business ethical practices in Australian organisations: a multiple case study Peter Wai-Hong Wong Southern Cross University Publication details Wong‚ PW 2006‚ ’A study of business ethical practices in Australian organisations: a multiple case study ’‚ PhD thesis‚ Southern Cross University‚ Lismore‚ NSW. Copyright PW Wong 2006 ePublications@SCU is an electronic repository administered by Southern Cross University
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