The Foundations of Bioethics: Contingency and Relevance  

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Aulisio, Mark P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 23 no. 4 (Aug. 1998), page 428-438.
Topik: Bioethics; Engelhardt; Moral Fragmentation; Secular Morality
Fulltext: MM80V23N4P428.pdf (33.24KB)

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.8 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In this essay, I proceed by, first, laying out H. Tristram Engelhardt's argument for the principle of permission as the proper foundation for a secular bioethic. After considering how a number of commentators have tried to undermine this argument, I show why it is immune to some of these advances. I then offer my own critique of Engelhardt's project. This critique is two pronged. First, I argue that Engelhardt is unable to establish his own foundation for a secular bioethic. This inability leaves him with only contingent points of departure for a secular bioethic, some of the more salient of which he has ignored. Second, I argue that even if Engelhardt's project succeeds, it is in danger of being irrelevant in a practical sense because it ignores important contextual dimensions of the peculiar enterprise we call bioethics. Ultimately, the proper foundations for a relevant secular bioethic, I argue, must appeal to certain contingent features of the context that gives rise to the need for it.

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