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Nov 17, 2018 · Bradshaw recognizes the power of Engelhardt’s analysis to undermine purely rationalistic ethics but argues that Engelhardt needlessly minimizes the positive role that rightly directed philosophy can play in properly orienting persons toward human flourishing.
- Mark J Cherry
- 2018
Dec 29, 2015 · In Engelhardt’s account, secular humanism is not a separate moral tradition competing with other religious or philosophical traditions in ethics. Secular humanism in the “second sense”, i.e., “as a mediator among rival bioethics” ( 1991 , p.
- Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Emran
- sahmadin@slu.edu
- 2016
This essay will argue that Engelhardt is not a libertarian by choice but by default. His libertarian conclusions can only be understood in light of his arguments about the failure of the modern philosophical enterprise in ethics and the implications of the postmodern dilemma.
- Kevin Wm. Wildes
- 1997
- Assumptions About The Background Circumstances of Morality
- Assumptions About The Necessity and Sufficiency of Procedural Morality
- Assumptions About The Breakdown of Procedural Morality
Engelhardt makes a number of important assumptions about the background circumstances of morality that then inform his constructive project of grounding the foundations of bioethics in the principle of permission. For present purposes, I’ll focus on three such assumptions and analyze them in turn.
Consent plays a central role in Engelhardt’s treatment of paradigm bioethical cases involving interactions between adults. Given the “limits of secular moral reasoning,” he concludes, consent becomes the only “means (within certain constraints) of giving moral authority to common undertakings without establishing the moral worth or moral desirabili...
In addition to making assumptions about the necessity and sufficiency of permission-giving, Engelhardt’s framework also incorporates content-full normative assumptions about the breakdown of procedural morality. So, for example, when someone violates the principle of permission and initiates non-consensual force against another, Engelhardt makes su...
Then, I examine Engelhardt's view concerning the futility of attempts at justifying a content-full secular bioethics, and indicate how the assumptions have shaped Engelhardt's critique of the alternatives for the possibility of content-full secular bioethics.
- Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Emran
- 2016
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...
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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...
