摘 要： 应用伦理学经常被认为是与理论伦理学相对的“应用的”或“实践的”伦理学，是伦理学的新范式或者是超出伦理学范围的交叉学科。这种观点在一定程度上基于对伦理学及其应用概念的错误理解，应用伦理学确切地说是对专门领域的伦理问题的思考，作为一门学科，它是与一般伦理学相对的专门（领域）的伦理学，没有亦不会超出伦理学的范围。
关键词： 应用伦理学； 伦理学； 应用
Practical or Special Ethics? Reflection on the Nature of Applied Ethics as a Discipline
LUO Ya-ling
Abstract: Applied ethics is always regarded as “applied” or “practical” ethics in contrast to theoretical ethics or ethical theory, a new paradigm of the ethics or an interdiscipline beyond the realm of ethics. This opinion is based on a misunderstanding of ethics and its concept of application. Applied ethics as a discipline addresses ethical issues in special fields. And as such it is different from general ethics, but still remains in the realm of ethics.
Key words: applied ethics; ethics; application
