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Introduction
societiesofclosely-linkedpeopleholdingdifferentworldviews,who
experiencetheirtimedifferentlythantheirpredecessors;thehistori-
cal,socialandindividualtimewrittenoutinchangingstandardsand
moralpractices.Itisourdesirethatthismonographwouldhelpan-
sweringthequestionaskedatthebeginningofthisIntroductionabout
whetherjudgmentsoftheconscienceareonlyaninternalizationof
socialnorms,orwhethertheyallowustodiscoverthatwhichisvalu-
ableinandforitself;aboutthebehaviourthatisrighthereandnow,
butalsoabouttimelessnorms(values).Towhatextentcanethics,par-
ticularlyinpubliclife,stilldeterminewhatisobjectivelyjust,orhow
muchdoesitapproachaestheticsandpresentonlysubjectiveconvic-
tions?Isthere,perhaps,somethingwhichexistentiallylinksethicsand
aesthetics?Wearelookingforanswerstothesequestions,atthesame
timewonderingtowhatextenttheyrequireareferencetotraditional
solutionsanddeterminationsinthefieldofethics,andhowurgentitis
tolookfornewproceduresofinvestigation.Inotherwords,thetasks
ofethicsarechanging,aswellasitsrelationshiptootherfieldsofphi-
losophyandsciences,whichforcesresearcherstoengageinintellec-
tualexperiments.Theirinterpretationcallsforadialogue,forpolem-
icsanddiscourses–towhichallReadersareinvited.
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