Franck Negro

The term "applied ethics" emerged in the United States during the 1960s. It was only from the 1970s onward, however, that philosophical ethics underwent a shift in its research orientation and gradually moved from a theoretical and speculative ethics centered on the semantic and epistemological analysis of ethical discourse (what is called "metaethics"), to a more concrete and sectoral ethics, more focused on the moral implications brought about by certain developments in the