The Role of Practical Ethics in Paying Attention to the Philosophy of Ethics

It would be meaningless to speak of ethics or ethics system without investigating and scrutinizing the theoretical infrastructures and bases of ethics. This, along with the role played by considerations of philosophy of ethics in institutionalizing morality in scientific and cultural body of the society and even among all its members, makes it necessary to have a serious and effective look at the discipline of ethics. The present article aims at granting attractiveness to study and research on various topics of philosophy of ethics. The first mechanism suggested by researchers on ethics in our country for achieving this goal was to pay attention to educative consequences of the theories current in the field of philosophy of ethics. This mechanism has not been successful so far due to problems mentioned in the article. Processing and enriching the discussions of philosophy of ethics with discussions of practical ethics is a unique (an innovative) suggestion whose merits have been mentioned and whose drawbacks have been dealt with here. In short, we have stressed that studies of practical ethics can play an effective role in granting attractiveness to philosophical studies about morality.