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标题：The Moral of Functional Differentiation - A New Horizon for Descriptive Innovation Ethics
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作者：Steffen Roth
期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies
印刷版ISSN：1239-2685
电子版ISSN：1239-2685
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：2
页码：27-34
出版社：Business and Organization Ethics Network
摘要：Although ethics is commonly defined as the science of the moral, the present paper shows that the larger part of contributions to the emerging innovation ethics discourse rather does than studies moral communication. Instead of descriptively analyzing how moral dilemmas are solved and decision-making refers to moral communication, contemporary innovation ethicists try to solve moral dilemmas by moral communication. In doing so, the larger part of innovation ethics is subject to a self-confusion with its own research field. As a result, ethics subordinates its own code of truth to the codes of power, health, law, money, and further function systems of society. Challenging this trend, the paper argues for a shift from an ethics as a moral science to an ethics as the science of the moral, which also allows for observing rather than following trends in moral preferences for specific function systems and (their) innovations
关键词：Innovation Ethics; Functional ;Differentiation; Social Systems; ;Moral Communication; Decision-;Making