Bioethics in the Third Millennium: Some Critical Anticipations
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Project MUSE in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Vol. 9 (3), 225-243
- https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.1999.0018
Abstract
Its promises to the contrary notwithstanding, bioethics is plural. There is a diversity of content-full moral understandings of the good and the right. Moreover, there is no secular means in principle to set this diversity aside without begging the question. This moral diversity exists both as a sociological condition and as a moral epistemological constraint. Without succumbing to a metaphysical scepticism or moral relativism, the bioethics of the future, if it is to be honest, should learn how to live with robust moral diversity.Keywords
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