Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 23 No. 2, 2008.
Original scientific paper
On the Dependence of Bioethical Stances on Some of Their Leading Notions, and on Consequences of This Insight for a Debate on Biomedicine
Klaus Thomalla
; Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Abstract
On grounds of three paradigmatic stances in bioethical discourse we will introduce the level of their dependence on their leading notions. All trough, we mustn’t exclude a certain point of view out of bioethical discourse just because it implies a metaphysical foundation. In fact, on a morally-philosophical level, every stance should be judged first as a theoretically immanent, considering whether it evolves its criteria consistently out of the leading notions which could be rationally founded. Successively, different views may join into a dialogue which allows the occurrence of potential one-sidedness. Only this second step is concerning legally-ethical explanation with a morally-philosophical correcture of ethical criteria, in case that a legally-ethical consideration doesn’t give us a possibility to prevent the danger of instrumentalisation in a proper manner. Only after, the aim to translate the religious potentials of explanation into a common language can be set, and the secular views would have to be left concealed. Ethics of law should certainly be able to reflect its results using morally-philosophical relevant intuitions, so approach, mainly oriented towards interests, could be questioned.
Keywords
bioethic; human dignity; metaphysics; moral philosophy; legal ethics
Hrčak ID:
37136
URI
Publication date:
13.2.2009.
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