EurSafe Congress. Wageningen University, March 4–6, 1999: Summing up and future prospects

Ben Mepham

Agriculture and Human Values, 2000, vol. 17, issue 4, 323-325

Abstract: Until recently, ethics was a highlyabstruse activity, with little reference to everydayaffairs. It dealt largely with what is calledmetaethics, and was in danger of becoming moribund asan intellectual activity. But for some years,ethics has been undergoing a process of rejuvenationand development. We now seem to be experiencing thebirth of this new discipline (or at least in the EU –the US has been engaged in it somewhat longer). The EurSafeCongress held at Wageningen University, March 4–6,1999 exemplifies this rejuvenation, and itstrongly suggests that a new discipline is emerging, that is not only exciting from an intellectualperspective, but also addresses issues of fundamentalsocial and political concern. It can beargued that, in this context, ethicists are in the position of guides.It is not their job to pronounce on what is right andwrong, but having trodden many of the theoreticalpaths through the forest, they are in a position toadvise and facilitate sound ethical decision-making byothers. The need for ethical insight in this field islikely to progressively increase over the comingyears. Ethicists have a duty to respond to this need. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

Keywords: Agricultural ethics; Applied ethics; EUR-SAFE congress; Food ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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