Postmodern ethics

Title: Postmodern ethics
Creator: Gray, Mel
Relation: Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work p. 120-131
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=314639
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
Description: In Chapter 9 we saw how Jürgen Habermas's ethical theory epitomizes social work's modern ethical tradition, not least his distinction between values, ethics and morals. For Habermas, since all societies and cultures have values, they assume the character of objective facts that are distinguishable from ethics, the socially agreed-upon normative requirements of a particular group or society about what can rightfully be expected from people in that society or group. And ethics are distinguishable from morals, our beliefs about right and wrong. For Habermas morality is personal and Bauman, the major proponent of a postmodern ethics, agrees, but for different reasons.
Subject: ethics; moral ambivalence; moral responsibility; the 'other'
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923825
Identifier: uon:9833
Identifier: ISBN:9780230221451
Language: eng

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