Description Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace.
Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cutting edge of science and technology.
Increasingly it is moving into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science and technology.
But few of us arrive in our first ethics class--or take our seat on an ethics committee--with a grip on the range of ideas and thinkers, perspectives and pitfalls that make up this ancient convers.