The Scandal of Secular Bioethics: What Happens When the Culture Acts as if there is No God?

This article explores the limits of secular philosophy and philosophical reason. It argues that once one abandons God, philosophical reason is unable to establish any particular bioethics or understanding of morality as canonical; that is, as definitively true and binding. Philosophy simply cannot s...

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Main Author: Cherry, Mark J. 1969- (Author)
Contributors: Engelhardt, Hugo Tristram 1941-2018 (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 85-99
Review of:After God (Yonkers, New York : St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2017) (Cherry, Mark J.)
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
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