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- There appears to be no common morality or commonly recognized moral authority. This is nowhere better illustrated than in the field of bioethics. Yet precisely here we must make moral decisions in a social and political context.
www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/review/bioethics-and-secular-humanism-the-search-for-a-common-morality/Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality
It does not close that debate, but it does provide a terrain where ‘moral strangers’ may hope to find a meeting-place to search for that elusive common ground that alone can validate bioethical decision-making.
- Brenda Almond
- 2007
Dec 29, 2015 · In Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality, Tristram Engelhardt examines various possibilities of finding common ground for moral discourse among people from different traditions and concludes their futility.
- Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Emran
- sahmadin@slu.edu
- 2016
These representatives of society's moral spectrum exemplified the premise of Tristram Engelhardt's new book, that secular humanism is the route through which individuals with differing values, "moral strangers" in his terms, can peaceably come together to agree on a common path for a pluralistic, postmodern society.
- Kenneth V. Iserson
- 1992
Apr 1, 2011 · To what moral premise do they appeal? Are power and influence the deciding factors, or is it possible to establish certain principles to which all may appeal? In answer, Professor Engelhardt...
- H. Tristram Engelhardt
- Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2011
- 1620320711, 9781620320716
Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. PAUL CHODOFF Authors Info & Affiliations. Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry. Volume 150, Number 5. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.5.828-a. Get Access. Get full access to this article. View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. Get Access.
“What may come to mind when we think of an instance of what Engelhardt considers the basis of morality are individuals, fully rational and fully informed, negotiating with each other, in respectful ways, to find some solution to a common problem.”
Jan 1, 2007 · Hence, humans can behave as moral agents without divine assistance, so they are primarily responsible for their own salvation and Jesus’s sacrifice on the Cross is not the basis for...
