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A utonomy , B eneficence, and Gezelligheid
Author(s) -
LINDEMANN HILDE
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.0.0188
Subject(s) - beneficence , autonomy , moral development , odds , moral authority , moral reasoning , moral psychology , sociology , ethical theory , normative ethics , moral disengagement , environmental ethics , social psychology , psychology , epistemology , political science , law , medicine , philosophy , logistic regression
American bioethicists lack the theoretical resources to work in cross‐cultural settings. All we have are two approaches to ethics—principles vs. narratives—that are mostly at odds, and neither of which is up to the job. If moral principles are too abstract to be useful, and if stories cannot provide moral authority, then where do we find our moral norms?