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Modern society is characterised by a growing tension between the awareness of ethical responsibility and the continued erosion of universally acknowledged values and moral standards. It is widely felt that ethical problems of a new dimension have arisen everywhere “for which there is no precedent in the standards and canons of traditional ethics” (Hans Jonas).
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Marshall, Paul, 1994, “Bad Company: Western Values Criticized in Asia”, Areopagus, Vol. 7, 4, p. 11
Goldstein, Laurence, 1990, “Philosophy in Hong Kong”, Cogito, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 192–7, p. 192
The only exception is Joel Zimbelman who came to Hong Kong on a one-year research appointment as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 1993.
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Becker, G.K. (1996). Ethics Between East and West: The Example of Hong Kong. In: Becker, G.K. (eds) Ethics in Business and Society. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61442-2_1
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