Bioethics in the Third Millennium: Some Critical Anticipations

, Its promises to the contrary notwithstanding, bioethics is plural. There is a diversity of content-full moral understandings of the good and the right. Moreover, there is no secular means in principle to set this diversity aside without begging the question. This moral diversity exists both as a s...

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Main Author: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram) (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1999
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 1999, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-243
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Summary:, Its promises to the contrary notwithstanding, bioethics is plural. There is a diversity of content-full moral understandings of the good and the right. Moreover, there is no secular means in principle to set this diversity aside without begging the question. This moral diversity exists both as a sociological condition and as a moral epistemological constraint. Without succumbing to a metaphysical scepticism or moral relativism, the bioethics of the future, if it is to be honest, should learn how to live with robust moral diversity.
ISSN:1086-3249
Contains:Enthalten in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ken.1999.0018