The Patterned Orders of Ethics

Abstract

In the two previous parts of our data analysis, we examined the patterned orders of the constitutive goods and code orientations as self-referential phenomenological structures. But these structures, notwithstanding their importance as ordering principles of moral standards, do not necessitate specific patterns of ethical action. To identify not the moral self, but the ethical actor, we shifted from analysis of structural patterns to analysis of individuals by conjoining code orientations and constitutive goods identified in the last two chapters. The findings strongly support the patterned order of ethics identified in Part I of the book, providing at the same time valuable details concerning the specific discursive ingredients these six orders consist of which a discursive analysis could not identify.