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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...

. A feeling of despair brought on by the necessity to make ethical or moral decisions. Ethical anxiety is a necessary attribute in the formation of moral *character in the ethical *society. Søren *Kierkegaard asserted that anxiety was one of the markers of true *freedom of choice. . A term initially arising from South Africa that literally means “apartness.” It is usually understood in the context of racial segregation, and more particularly to the racial policies of the
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