PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN ETHICS NETWORK

Ethical perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, is published quarterly. It aims at being a forum for discussion and shares in the vision of improving the capacity of professionals and leaders in business, politics, civil service, biotechnology, law medicine and the media to deal more adequately with the ethical concerns of practice.

ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES

The primary goal of Ethical Perspectives, journal of the European Ethics Network, is the promotion of dialogue between fundamental and applied ethics at an international level. It strives to accomplish this through interdisciplinary collaboration among ethicists and specialists from diverse sciences. Given this goal, the European Ethics Network seeks to use Ethical Perspectives to create a forum for transnational dialogue.

The multi-disciplinary and international character of the publication is guaranteed by its International Editorial Board, whose members, coming from a variety of European countries, represent the journal broad-based European readership and focus. The members of the Editorial Board will help solicit and evaluate articles for publication in Ethical Perspectives and be a continuing source of information for the journal’s regular chronicle of European conferences, institutional and organizational events and publications in areas such as bio-ethics, business ethics, economic and social ethics, environmental ethics, etc.

Ethical Perspectives appears four times annually and is published in the English language. Manuscripts submitted to the Editor will be anonymously evaluated by at least two members of the Editorial Board, whose positive evaluation will be required for the manuscript publication in the journal. Manuscripts can be submitted by post, e-mail or on diskette. A style sheet is available upon request.

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3.Books of the core materials project:

G. DE STEXHE, J. VERSTRAETEN (eds.)
Matters of Breath, Foundations for Professional Ethics, Leuven, Peeters, 2000.

This book submits for discussion the first results of an undertaking that is still going on. It aims to stimulate a broad reflection on the general question of the meaning of ethics ans ethics teaching in the context of professional practice. In so doing, it explores what might be called the transverse foundations of professional ethics. Its intention is not to establish a code of general principles, nor a didactic handbook nor an inventory of the principal doctrines and themes in ethics. The authors, all of them philosophers engaged in educating future professionals, took the risk of putting forward a vision which is more inspirational than informative. Their approach to ethics is in-depht and wide-ranging, appropriate to what ethics is: a positive, creative dynamic, less concerned with respecting certain rules or applying certain procedures than with the inventive significance of a sensible practice or a meaningful life, both for individuals and for institutions or societies as a whole. This volume, then, is offered primarly as an instrument and source of inspiration (and perhaps also as course material) for anyone involved in ethics education who wants to reflect on professional life and to conceive their courses as going beyond a narrowly deontological or informative point of view.