Beneficence: pluralism or antagonism? Bioethics searching for foundations
Keywords:
Post modernity, Principlism, Beneficence, Autonomy, PaternalismAbstract
Post-modern philosophy shows symptoms of some reason ills, the most evident of them being the fragmentation of rational paradigms together with the narrowness of their epistemic scope. Rejecting the possibility of knowing universal references upon which reason might construct a rational system, every essay of values foundation fails. As a result, dealing with the foundation of bioethics becomes a hard endeavor. Because a substantive notion of good and ends is absent, plural and opposite contemporary paradigms of bioethics foundation provide plural and opposite senses to the principle of beneficence. This article analyses some of these contradictory theses. The central issue is to know if, being so, the foundation of bioethics is still possible and, if so, which therapies are suitable to heal the ills of contemporary reason.Downloads
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2013-12-10
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SILVA, P. O. Beneficence: pluralism or antagonism? Bioethics searching for foundations. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 5, n. 1, p. 22–31, 2013. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/6709. Acesso em: 4 may. 2025.
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