Ethics
In the last decade, the interest among theorists and practitioners in the issue of ethics has grown remarkably due to several reasons. As Anthony Pym, professor of sociolinguistics and sociological scholar of translation and intercultural studies, points out, a shift within the field from descriptivism towards tendencies of globalisation can be observed that draw the attention to questions of cross-cultural communication. In the course of the cultural changes due to 9/11 the consciousness of the problem of conflicting worldviews and values between the author and reader, and their relationship to social, economic and political power has been sharpened.
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“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)