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(2016) Embracing the ivory tower and stained glass windows, Dordrecht, Springer.
Our ethically informed choice of action is situated in time. However, the question of time is seldom explicitly addressed in publications on ethics. This essay is a tentative comment as a contribution to fill that gap.NOW has a central position in our choice of action. It is our first step into the FUTURE. This cannot be only a timeless investigation. Our ethical reflection may also involve a vision of the future we want, a tool to assist our decisions. The discussion in ethical theory as well as in applied ethics is often of a general and abstract character. I suggest that we should see such abstractions as tools in an ethical toolbox, rather than timeless or objective justifications. Autonomy in reasons and actions demands self-authorized coherence over time, but also openness to slow changes.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23944-6_5
Full citation:
Görman, U. (2016)., Time – a dimension of ethics, in J. Baldwin (ed.), Embracing the ivory tower and stained glass windows, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 59-67.
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