Procedural ethics
Procedural ethics is the name for ethical concepts that contain (largely) content-related specifications and instead suggest procedures with which ethical principles can be found. Thus, procedural ethics are basically open-ended.
Examples of procedural ethics are the discourse ethics of Karl-Otto Apel and approaches of contract theory by Thomas Hobbes or John Rawls .
One criticism that is made of procedural ethical concepts is that in some cases procedures are chosen in such a way that the desired results are achieved, i.e. there is no openness to results. An example of such a procedure is Rawls " Theory of Justice ": "We want to determine the original state in such a way that the desired solution emerges"
literature
- Dieter Birnbacher : Analytical Introduction to Ethics. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11031-570-7 .