- Title
- Reconciling normative tensions in biomedical ethics: constructing an ethics of coinherence informed by the Trinitarian theology of Karl Barth
- Creator
- Moyse, Ashley
- Relation
- Trinitarian Theology after Barth p. 355-376
- Relation
- https://wipfandstock.com/store/Trinitarian_Theology_after_Barth
- Publisher
- Pickwick Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- The struggles to comprehend and fortell the intracacies of human life, human relations, and human being present a challenge. Such difficulties move people to search for moral clarity and guidance in a number of locations, moving some to appropriately label ethicists as "eternal dabblers.' But all this dabbling has proven to be neither clarifying nor guiding. People are increasingly bound by proliferating questions and debilitated by a sense that moral integrity is being lost in the name of progress. Confusion rather than clarity, procedure rather than morality is surrounding the particulars of human life, social relations, and clinical practice. In the biomedical sciences this struggle has never been more apparent than today as ethical quandaries and moral dilemmas are increasingly specialized and seem to multiply disproportionately to the number of considered actions recommended. The need for moral guidance is critical. However, the problem of ethics is set within a culture defined by the inability to make decisions and within a discipline that lacks an agreeable and unifying decision-making paradigm. Appropriately, Zygmunt Bauman writes, "We need moral knowledge and skill .... Yet, we do not know where we can get them; and when (if) they are offered, we are seldom sure we can trust them unswervingly.' Similarly, Tristram Engelhardt cautions: "The moral predicament of the 21st century is that humans have never had more power or less of an understanding of how to secure a justified, concrete account of the proper goals for that power or substantive moral constraints on its use..." Truly, there are various ethical questions that professionals, caregivers, and policy-makers attempt to wrestle with in the biomedical sciences. However, this grappling is often futile and frustrating for instead of conceding on ethical judgments, great divisions are generated and no solution advanced finds universal, or at least relevant group, acceptance. That is, for many "a sense of responsibility [remains] but an inadequate account of to whom one should be responsible or how [persists]."
- Subject
- biomedical sciences; ethics; Karl Barth
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1063479
- Identifier
- uon:17290
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781608994908
- Language
- eng
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