difference principle
Overview page. Subjects: Philosophy.
The principle chosen by rational people from behind the veil of ignorance, in Rawls's A Theory of Justice. The principle requires that social benefits and burdens are allocated in such a...
Keeping it Ethically Real
in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
August 2016; p ublished online June 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Bioethics; Public Policy. 6913 words.
Many clinical ethicists have argued that ethics expertise is impossible. Their skeptical argument usually rests on the assumptions that to be an ethics expert is to know the correct moral...
Moral Consensus in Public Ethics: Patient Autonomy and Family Decisionmaking in the Work of One State Bioethics Commission
in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
April 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Bioethics; Public Policy. 0 words.
Focusing on the work of one bioethics commission, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, this article explores the role played by moral consensus in public ethics. Task Force...
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