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The situation of contemporary ethics is a strange mixture of utilitarianism, Kantianism, antimoralism, relativism and a few attempts to renew Aristotelianism. In Anglosaxon philosophy utilitarianism seems to predominate, although some elements of deontology also are influential.
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Peperzak, A. (1994). Ethics in Our Time. In: Stapleton, T.J. (eds) The Question of Hermeneutics. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1160-7_19
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