Participants were then asked to reflect on their conception of ethics, the times they had experienced ethical challenges and their reactions, and their thoughts on their preparation for situations of this nature.
She urged the abandonment of "the law conception of ethics" and a return to the avowedly secular Aristotelian concepts of practical reasoning and virtue.
In presenting such a mixed ethical theory, Bolzano came already close to a modern conception of ethics (such as, e.g., that outlined in William K. Frankena's Ethics, 2nd edition, 1973, 43 ff).
Thus, responsibility – which would be the key to any conception of ethics in relation to Heidegger's work, which is, to say the least, a moot point – consists in understanding the call, in wanting to have a conscience.
However, some of his comments suggest a subtle metaphysical view that supports his conception of ethics.
Like other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics.
No absolute conception of ethics will be available to us; hence, neither will the kind of impartiality that utilitarianism depends upon.
It has no reasonable sense outside a law conception of ethics; they are not going to maintain such a conception; and you can do ethics without it, as is shown by the example of Aristotle.
The second points to an important limitation in Descartes' conception of ethics: he does not enunciate a specific set of duties, because these, he believes, are the purview of the sovereign.
Owing to their largely individualist conception of ethics—and in keeping with late Renaissance tradition, the libertins tended to avoid political theory and larger social issues, focusing instead on self-governance and morality understood in terms of character.
