The Scandal of Secular Bioethics: What Happens When the Culture Acts as if there is No God?
This article explores the limits of secular philosophy and philosophical reason. It argues that once one abandons God, philosophical reason is unable to establish any particular bioethics or understanding of morality as canonical; that is, as definitively true and binding. Philosophy simply cannot s...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Rezension |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2017]
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Christian bioethics
Jahr: 2017, Band: 23, Heft: 2, Seiten: 85-99 |
| Rezension von: | After God (Yonkers, New York : St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2017) (Cherry, Mark J.)
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christentum und Gesellschaft NCH Medizinische Ethik VA Philosophie |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article explores the limits of secular philosophy and philosophical reason. It argues that once one abandons God, philosophical reason is unable to establish any particular bioethics or understanding of morality as canonical; that is, as definitively true and binding. Philosophy simply cannot secure the truth of any particular account of the right, the good, the just, or the virtuous. Once one abandons God, all is approached as if it were without ultimate meaning. Throughout, the article explores H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr's arguments in After God: Morality and Bioethics in a Secular Age, which confronts this major intellectual and cultural crisis. As Engelhardt remind us, traditional Christianity is not a life-style choice, much less another meta-narrative that one chooses and writes for oneself. It is an encounter with God, Who changes everything. Christian bioethics must be appreciated in terms of an encounter with and an authentic experience of God, Whose commands will routinely conflict with the moral dictates of secular morality. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbx006 |
