Applied ethics work seems to me to be of three main kinds. There is participatory work, where a person whose specialism is ethics participates in a process leading to ethical judgments or decisions. And there are two kinds of teaching work where the teaching objective is to make learners better placed to participate in such processes; one kind of teaching work relates to matters which are specific to the future occupation of the learner, the other kind relates to matters which (...) are not specific to it. (shrink)

James M. Brown; XI*—Right and Virtue, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 82, Issue 1, 1 June 1982, Pages 143–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotel.