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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.
- Questioning Engelhardt’s assumptions in Bioethics and Secular ...
In Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common...
- Questioning Engelhardt’s assumptions in Bioethics and Secular ...
Abstract. In their book The Abuse of Casuistry, Jonsen and Toulmin describe how the members of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research were able to agree on moral actions, although they were not able to agree on the ethical reasoning behind their decisions.
- Kenneth V. Iserson
- 1992
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
Apr 1, 2011 · Bioethics is vitally important in our day because it represents the critical expression of interest in the proper use of medical science to provide health care. Secular humanism is important...
- H. Tristram Engelhardt
- Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2011
- 1620320711, 9781620320716
Dec 31, 2018 · In light of this, scholars, policy makers, and clinicians sought to identify a common morality that could be used among persons with different moral commitments to resolve disputes and guide...
Jan 1, 2007 · 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,...
Book Review: Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. By H. Tristram Englehardt, Jnr. London: SCM Press/Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1991. Pp. 206. £22.50 stg - Maurice Reidy, 1994. Restricted access. Review article. First published September 1994.
