Applying Rawlsian Approaches to Resolve Ethical Issues: Inventory and Setting of a Research Agenda

Insights from social science are increasingly used in the field of applied ethics. However, recent insights have shown that the empirical branch of business ethics lacks thorough theoretical grounding. This article discusses the use of the Rawlsian methods of wide reflective equilibrium and overlapp...

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主要作者: Doorn, Neelke (Author)
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2009
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, 卷: 91, 发布: 1, Pages: 127
Further subjects:B ethical methodology
B wide reflective equilibrium
B Applied Ethics
B conflicting values
B Justification
B overlapping consensus
B Rawls
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