Moral Acquaintances - Methodology in Bioethics

Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics is not part of the standard repertory of books that explore and offer guidance on a particular issue in bioethics. The question Kevin Wm. Wildes poses is not what we can do morally in a field of great moral controversy, but how we can conceive the controversy and seek a moral course of action.Wildes argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirror the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. Rather than assume that there is one method for all or that we are lost in deep moral pluralism, Wildes argues that we can imagine ourselves as moral acquaintances. Key to understanding our acquaintanceship are the procedures that bind us together and the moral justifications and assumptions for those procedures.

About the author

Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. is Associate Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of Medicine at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae (1997) and Infertility: A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology

Summary

The author of this text argues that the methodological issues in bioethics mirrors the experience of moral pluralism in a secular society. The different methods that have been used in the field reflect the different moral views found in a pluralistic society.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin William Wildes, Kevin Wm. Wildes, Rev Kevin S J Wildes, Rev Kevin S. J. Wildes, Rev Kevin S.J. Wildes
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2000
• EAN: 9780268034528
• ISBN: 978-0-268-03452-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works