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Political Bioethics

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement?
Reasoned debate will not often generate an answer equally accepted to all participants and affected persons. One political means of reaching binding because authoritative decisions are majoritarian democratic institutions. Its core feature is proceduralism, the notion both that no rule is acceptable apart from a formal method, and that the acceptable method yields an acceptable rule; a rule is acceptable by virtue of being the outcome of an agreed-upon procedure. This approach is distinctly political and presupposes values such as legitimacy, order, stability, individual freedom, equality, and toleration of difference. Although not value neutral, it makes agreement and collective action possible in ways that bioethics oriented principally on pre-political ethical and moral values cannot. I demonstrate the usefulness of this approach with several examples.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Benjamin Gregg
Keywords
politics
bioethics
democracy
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 06/11/2018
Duration: 00:52:02

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