"Readers will find here a provocative volume that brings into question the hope for global consensus on issues in bioethics." -- Andrew Lustig, Professor of Religion and Science, Davidson College
"The editor understates the impact of these essays will have on the ethics debate." -- Russell Hittinger, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa
"Readers will find here a provocative volume that brings into question the hope for global consensus on issues in bioethics." -- Andrew Lustig, Professor of Religion and Science, Davidson College
"The editor understates the impact of these essays will have on the ethics debate." -- Russell Hittinger, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa
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This collection of essays, Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus, deals with the issue of the repeated failure of attempts to derive a universal set of standards in bioethics. The predicament of contemporary morality, the post-modern condition, is such that we find ourselves in the position of numerous competing moralities that not only reach conflicting judgments about particular issues, but also reflect radically divergent world-views. Consensus, therefore, is impossible to achieve.
The essays analyze and diagnose both the causes and results of the diversity of moral world-views in both philosophy and the practices in the world. Furthermore, some of the essays in this volume argue that the post-modern condition is actually the direct and inevitable result of the attempted philosophical-theological synthesis of the Western Christian Middle Ages.
The essays of this volume attempt to resolve the difficulties, both procedural and contentful, that have arisen from the failure of various attempts to arrive at a global secular bioethics by means of rational-discursive philosophy.
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"Readers will find here a provocative volume that brings into question the hope for global consensus on issues in bioethics." -- Andrew Lustig, Professor of Religion and Science, Davidson College
"The editor understates the impact of these essays will have on the ethics debate." -- Russell Hittinger, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa
"Readers will find here a provocative volume that brings into question the hope for global consensus on issues in bioethics." -- Andrew Lustig, Professor of Religion and Science, Davidson College
"The editor understates the impact of these essays will have on the ethics debate." -- Russell Hittinger, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa
Product Description
This collection of essays, Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus, deals with the issue of the repeated failure of attempts to derive a universal set of standards in bioethics. The predicament of contemporary morality, the post-modern condition, is such that we find ourselves in the position of numerous competing moralities that not only reach conflicting judgments about particular issues, but also reflect radically divergent world-views. Consensus, therefore, is impossible to achieve.
The essays analyze and diagnose both the causes and results of the diversity of moral world-views in both philosophy and the practices in the world. Furthermore, some of the essays in this volume argue that the post-modern condition is actually the direct and inevitable result of the attempted philosophical-theological synthesis of the Western Christian Middle Ages.
The essays of this volume attempt to resolve the difficulties, both procedural and contentful, that have arisen from the failure of various attempts to arrive at a global secular bioethics by means of rational-discursive philosophy.