Reconsidering Wisdom, Keywords, Concepts, and Models  

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Lustig, B. Andrew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 29 no. 6 (Dec. 2004), page 641-646.
Topik: Bioethics; Metaphorical Force
Fulltext: MM80V29N6P641.pdf (30.41KB)

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The contributions to this issue of the Journal, despite their range, exhibit a core concern: to reassess themes and perspectives in bioethics that, when expressed in familiar terms and phrases, may fail to be viewed in their full complexity or analyzed with sufficient rigor to do justice to novel clinical situations. Bioethics, as any theoretical or practical discipline, is hardly immune to this general failing—to be lulled into unwarranted confidence in a discourse that has become second nature. There is, however, an obvious irony in bioethics succumbing to that tendency. In an age of biotechnological innovation, the meanings of nature itself, as a primary referent, have come under severe scrutiny. A fortiori, our seeming certainties about concepts or habits of thought that appear “second nature” deserve at least as much scrutiny as the primary concept which lends that ascription its metaphorical force.

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