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Pavadinimas: GLOBAL BIOETHICS: THE COLLAPSE OF CONSENSUS
Autoriai: EDITED BY H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR.
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ISBN: 0-9764041-3-3
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076427238
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     This collection of essays, Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus, deals with the issue of the repeated failure to derive a universal set of standards for bioethics. The predicament of contemporary morality, the post-modern condition, is such that we face numerous com­peting moralities that not only reach conflict­ing judgments about particular issues, but also reflect radically divergent world-views, Con­sensus has proven impossible to achieve....

    


     These essays analyze and diagnose both the causes and results of the diversity of moral world-views in both philosophy and everyday life. Some of the essays in this volume argue that the post-modern condition is the direct and inevitable result of the attempted philo­sophical-theological synthesis of the Western Christian Middle Ages.

     The essays in this volume explore the difficul­ties, both procedural and contentful, that have arisen from the failure to arrive at a glob­al secular bioethics by means of rational-dis­cursive reflection.


     The intended audience is first and foremost bioethicists, health care professionals, and philosophers dealing with contemporary ethi­cal and moral issues. Philosophers more gener­ally, as well as all those interested in contem­porary ethical and moral issues, will find this volume to offer a fresh perspective on the cul­ture wars.


 

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