Farrokh B Sekaleshfar
Farrokh B Sekaleshfar
Personhood constitutes the pivotal point in the abortion debate. There exists a diversity of views as to when foetal personhood actually starts-from conception and implantation to viability and even birth. One perspective that has lost supp...
A theory of health science and the healing arts based on the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan [0.03%]
基于伯纳德·Lonergan哲学的健康科学和治疗艺术理论
Patrick R Daly
Patrick R Daly
This paper represents a preliminary investigation relating Bernard Lonergan's thought to health science and the healing arts. First, I provide background for basic elements of Lonergan's theoretical terminology that I employ. As inquiry is ...
Mark Moller
Mark Moller
Many who believe that human embryos have moral status are convinced that their use in human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research can be morally justified as long as they are discarded embryos left over from fertility treatments. This is one ...
"Other selves": moral and legal proposals regarding the personhood of cryopreserved human embryos [0.03%]
“他我”：有关冷冻人体胚胎的人格问题之道德及法律预案
E Christian Brugger
E Christian Brugger
This essay has two purposes. The first is to argue that our moral duties towards human embryos should be assessed in light of the Golden Rule by asking the normative question, "how would I want to be treated if I were an embryo?" Some rejec...
A dialogical exploration of the grey zone of health and illness: medical science, anthropology, and Plato on alcohol consumption [0.03%]
健康与疾病的灰色地带：医学、人类学以及柏拉图眼中的饮酒问题
Kieran Bonner
Kieran Bonner
This paper takes a phenomenological hermeneutic orientation to explicate and explore the notion of the grey zone of health and illness and seeks to develop the concept through an examination of the case of alcohol consumption. The grey zone...
Carson Strong
Carson Strong
John D Arras
John D Arras
In this commentary, I critically discuss the respective views of Gert and Beauchamp-Childress on the nature of so-called common morality and its promise for enriching ethical reflection within the field of bioethics. Although I endorse Beau...
The common morality in communitarian thought: reflective consensus in public policy [0.03%]
共同体思想中的共同道德：公共政策中的反思共识
Mark G Kuczewski
Mark G Kuczewski
I explore the possible meanings that the notion of the common morality can have in a contemporary communitarian approach to ethics and public policy. The common morality can be defined as the conditions for shared pursuit of the good or as ...
K A Wallace
K A Wallace
The idea of moral reform requires that morality be more than a description of what people do value, for there has to be some measure against which to assess progress. Otherwise, any change is not reform, but simply difference. Therefore, I ...
Ronald A Lindsay
Ronald A Lindsay
Even if there is a common morality, many would argue that it provides little guidance in resolving moral disputes, because universally accepted norms are both general in content and few in number. However, if we supplement common morality w...