Appreciative Ethics

The volume brings together a series of theoretical analysis and field studies in applied ethics. The philosophical perspectives concerned are the social-constructionist and the appreciative one (derived from appreciative inquiry). Are addressed themes of ethics, as autonomy and its social construction, contractualist ethics, and feminist ethics of care. The volume also examines some contemporary challenges that rise in front of ethics: transumanism and artificial improvement of species, protection of dignity of the human species, etc. Are also addressed both ethical counseling and supervision of ethics, presenting an unique approach. In the volume we propose a model of ethics as appreciative ethics of care, which proposes a synthesis between feminist ethics of care and appreciative inquiry, as a priority of the author.

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Antonio SANDU has a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Author's contributions in the field aims to develop an appreciative ethic of care, derived from the appreciative constructionist perspective and a new semiotic methodology, called fractal constructionism. The author also develops a model of applied philosophy, called Appreciative Philosophical Counseling.