Original Research

Die kernbetekenis van die mens se etiese bestaanswyse

P. J. le Roux
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 58, No 4 | a723 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v58i4.723 | © 1993 P. J. le Roux | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 25 January 1993 | Published: 25 January 1993

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P. J. le Roux, Dept. Didaktiek, Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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Abstract

Ethicists differ widely in their views on the field of investigation of ethics as a science. These differences underpinning various theories regarding the true nature of ethics, seriously inhibit collaboration between adherents of different stances in this respect. Consequently meaningful progress in the development of ethical sciences can largely be attributed to divergent views on the essence (the meaning kernel or modal nucleus) of the ethical mode of human existence. In this article an attempt is made at identifying the true meaning nucleus of the ethical aspect of reality. To achieve this, the meaning of the concept meaning nucleus as well as the characteristics of meaning nuclei as such and the way in which they should be formulated, are investigated. Finally some prevailing ideas on the nature of the ethical mode of human existence are judged against the findings of this investigation.

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