But that old-fashioned value system, Cowley argued, shifted to a consumption ethic of spending and leisure, and the bohemian doctrine, it turned out, "proved quite useful" to the new mainstream ethic.
Another good example of social-difference feminism is care ethics, which was originally developed as an alternative to mainstream ethical theory, has been harnessed to counter liberal political theory (Gilligan 1982; Held 1995).
Because the values embedded in these features are not always apparent to the technical experts who develop computer systems, Brey believes that a methodological framework, which expands upon what he calls the "standard" applied-ethics model typically used in "mainstream computer ethics," is needed to identify or disclose the "hidden" values at the design stage.
As a feminist ethic, it also involves articulation of values (e.g., values of care, empathy, and friendship) often lost or underplayed in mainstream Western ethics.
The first of these disturbing Church salvos against mainstream medical ethics is to be found in the newly promulgated Directive 58 of the United States bishops' body governing Catholic health care services.
This is the hoped-for mainstreaming of ethics.
The changing culture within Internet businesses -- from a work force of "young, revolutionary zealots" to one with a more mainstream corporate ethic -- is a necessary thing," Mr. Shirky said.
(Mainstream American journalism ethics, including the ground rules of The New York Times, prohibit such practices).
The mainstream of Western ethics takes the individual, decision-making agent as the basic unit of concern, and a primary concern is to develop a universally applicable method of arbitrating among the often disparate interests of individual agents, establishing rationally-guided means to determining and practically realizing the meaning of the good life.
