书目名称 | Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions |
副标题 | Resolving Moral Conf |
编辑 | Stephen S. Hanson |
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概述 | The first clear analysis of moral acquaintances that addresses both Kevin Wildes’s and Erich Loewy’s versions of the important concept.Provides a method for making justified moral resolutions in diffi |
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描述 | .The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict. The most prevalent bioethical theories often either overestimate or underestimate the amount of shared moral belief that can be used to address those conflicts. This work presents a means for taking seriously the pluralism in the modern world while recognizing the likelihood of moral “acquaintance” between persons with differing views. It criticizes moral theories that overstate the extent of the problem of pluralism as well as those that imply too much agreement between reasonable moral persons, yet it locates a means for the resolution of many moral conflicts in moral acquaintanceship. Drawing from the work of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., casuists and principle-based theorists, and Erich Loewy and Kevin W. Wildes’s initial development of the concept of moral acquaintanceship, Moral Acquaintances and Moral Decisions is philosophically indepth work with direct applications for decisionmaking in real medical settings. A work in moral theory as well as a source of real world guidance, clinically oriented bioethics professionals as well as students of bioethical theory should find the t |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Moral Acquaintances; Moral Justification; Pluralism; bioethics; ethics; medical ethics; morality |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2508-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-0522-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2508-1 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |