Abstract
The study of ethics has had a long history in normative philosophy. Moral philosophers aim at the goal of prescribing and justifying standards of behaviour. The task by nature is a normative one. In the social sciences and psychological literature, moral psychologists aim to discover what moral behaviours typically are. The task is an empirical one and involves observation and analysis of people’s typical behaviour in specific social contexts. Although ethical enquiry ought to be a unified field, the normative and the empirical approaches have remained in separate literatures. However the call for a joint effort in ethical enquiry has been voiced by both moral philosophers and empirical scientists (e.g., Donaldson, 1994; Greenberg & Bies, 1992; Waterman, 1988; Weaver & Trevino, 1994; Werhane, 1994).
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