How Casuistry and Virtue Ethics Might Break the Ideological Stalemate Troubling Agricultural Biotechnology

Business Ethics Quarterly 12 (3):305-330 (2002)
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This article begins by showing how recent controversies over the widespread promotion of artificially gene-altered foods are rooted in opposing ethical and ideological worldviews. It then explains how these contrasting worldviews have led to a practical, ethical, and ideological standoff and, finally, suggests the combined use of casuistry and virtue ethics as a way for both sides to move ahead on this pressing issue.

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