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In reflective equilibrium the ethical and conceptual aspects have to be weighed against each other together with empirical information.
By engaging in practical ethics via reflective equilibrium of any sort, we are already thereby engaging in a form of ethical theorizing, albeit perhaps at a lower level of abstraction than traditional high theory.
Game theory has even penetrated areas of philosophy (e.g., to study the equilibrium properties of ethical rules), religion (e.g., to interpret Bible stories), and pure mathematics (e.g., to analyze how to divide a cake fairly among n people).
Among the classical economists, the focus of attention shifted away from ethical justification toward the problem of mechanical equilibrium.
The ethical position advocated by Judge Wilhelm in "Equilibrium Between the Aesthetic and the Ethical in the Composition of Personality" (Either-Or II) is a peculiar mix of cognitivism and noncognitivism.
The condescending attitude of many who work in ethical theory toward work in practical ethics thus is incompatible with what wide reflective equilibrium establishes about the relationship between these areas of ethical inquiry.
Only a few of these concepts have so far provided the basis for concrete empirical-ethical studies, such as approaches which are based on a reflective equilibrium [ 9], a symbiotic model of empirical ethics [ 6] or a hermeneutic account [ 7].
Finally, and of the greatest significance, the method of wide reflective equilibrium should make it clear that work in ethical theory cannot be divorced from work in practical ethics.
One important implication of adopting the method of reflective equilibrium is a blurring of the allegedly sharp boundary between practical ethics and ethical theory.
-- reach Equilibrium.
Equilibrium prevailed.
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