Open AccessBioetyka a problemy metodologiczne etyki
Author(s) -
Alicja Fiszer
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.385
Subject(s) - bioethics , normative , epistemology , pluralism (philosophy) , relativism , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , relation (database) , subject (documents) , normative ethics , applied ethics , meta ethics , philosophy , information ethics , law , political science , computer science , database , artificial intelligence , library science
The relation between bioethics and ethical methodology is the subject of this article. The author is of the opinion that bioethical considerations demand both medical and biological knowledge as well as some general ethical theory. As we know there is not one ethical theory. but many. The author asks whether we have any moral rational foundations for choosing one of the competing ethical systems, and, if this is not possible, whether normative ethics is at all necessary for the solution of practical conflicts. In other words, the author poses the question whether the cultivation of normative ethics. while one is aware of the pluralism of values and variety of ethical theories, has any scientific and practical sense. Still, according to the author methodological relativism need not necessarily imply the acceptance of an axiologically relativistic stand and need not necessarily lead to moral indifference. Beauchamp and Childress work shows a fine approach to bioethical problems.