Living Ethics International Network
Co-created, grounded, growing.
What is Living Ethics?
Living ethics is a novel “stance” or orientation to ethics.
It involves two fundamental aspects:
Based on experience
Living ethics sees ethics as:
Living ethics is profoundly engaged with the human experience and the role played by morality in human existence.
It distances itself from overly rationalist, abstract or procedural conceptions of ethics that can alienate people from their real moral experiences.
Dynamic
Living ethics sees ethics as:
Living ethics also seeks to support human beings as they adapt, evolve and progress towards a better, more fulfilling, flourishing and meaningful existence.
Aims of living ethics
01
Concrete and existential problems
Living ethics aims to connect ethics scholarship and reflection to the concrete, existential problems of life, by envisioning ethics as going beyond compliance with the standards found, for example, in professional codes of conduct.
02
Accessibility
Living ethics aims to facilitate more accessible forms of ethics processes to enable fellow citizens to engage with ethical questions and participate actively in deliberations.
03
Time and space
Living ethics creates times and spaces where ethical discussions on concrete and existential issues can truly take place.