Since the central purposes of ethics are to resolve or coordinate attitudes, an analysis of ethical language must reveal how ethical language serves these dynamic purposes.
Since, for Stevenson, the purposes of ethics are to settle, coordinate, or otherwise resolve disagreements in attitude, an analysis of ethical language must display how ethical language is apt for performing these functions.
For Stevenson, language is an instrument or tool for serving certain purposes; ethical language is thus suited especially for the central purposes of ethics.
Ethical language should be suitable for the purposes of ethics.
The practical purpose of environmental ethics, they maintain, is to provide moral grounds for social policies aimed at protecting the earth's environment and remedying environmental degradation.
A detailed analysis of the Icelandic commercial population-wide genomics database project of deCODE Genetics was performed for the purpose of providing ethics insights into public/private efforts to develop genetic databases.
An online survey5 has been used to gather information about the business ethics scholars previously involved in a Delphi process, with the aim being to establish not only the validity of the Delphi method for the purpose of business ethics, but also the process and the part experts play in it.
History is therefore subversive to the essential purpose of medical ethics; its only conceivable role is the ludicrously Whiggish one of revealing 'improvements' in morals over time.
The purpose of the ethics review is to facilitate dialogue with scientific investigators and to better identify areas for targeted normative and empirical bioethics research with high impact.
Elsewhere, Rabinow and Bennett (2007b, p. 11) argue that the creation of equipment oriented to what they term 'flourishing' would be central to the cultivation of forms of care of ourselves, others and the world, making flourishing both part of the practice and purpose of science, ethics and pedagogy.
