Ethics and Society. Limits and Perspectives of
Applied Ethics.
Program of conferences and debates
October-November 2003
Program coordinator:
Mihaela Frunza
Research team:
Horatiu Crisan, Codruta Cuceu, Liviu Pop, Ana-Elena Ilinca, Lorin
Ghiman
Scientific research in the field of applied ethics
is one of the most important in the contemporary ethical debates.
Firstly, applied ethics is important due to its interdisciplinary
nature, crossing with fields such as medicine, journalism, communication
studies, law, and politics. In all these fields, applied ethics articulates
several deontological codes in which the moral dimension is essential.
The scientific knowledge in this field has a particular relevance
for the links that are established among traditional philosophical
ethics and other top rank fields.
Secondly, applied ethics represents a form of
synthesizing the traditional ways of understanding of moral philosophy.
This happens because moral philosophy, in each of its historical stages,
had and continues to have a practical nature – that of building
a practical rationality – which recent developments in applied
ethics have managed to emphasize.
The program of conferences and debates proposed
by GDES aims at promoting applied ethics among young students and
researchers through a series of highly academic events. The series
of conferences and debates covers a large and representative sample
of the contemporary field of applied ethics, and raises significant
questions for the contemporary period.
Conferences are held by:
