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This article aims to highlight the position occupied by compromise in the field of ethics. The argument is set out in two stages. First, the author attempts to clarify the contours of compromise by treating it as both a procedure or process of conflict resolution and a goal or “solution” to be achieved. In the second stage, he examines the distinction that could be made between “morality in compromise” and “morality of compromise”, so as to measure its import and show how compromise not only contains elements specific to morality as a system but can also be a form of morality in itself.

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Agreement Compromise Conflict (of values)Dispute Ethics Exchange Morality Negotiation Pluralism Reciprocity

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The Morality in/of Compromise: Some Theoretical Reflections

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