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- Title
Bioethics, Christian Charity and the View from No Place.
- Authors
Trotter, Griffin
- Abstract
This essay contrasts the notions of charity employed by Traditional Christianity and by liberal cosmopolitan bioethics, arguing that: (1) bioethics attempts to reconstruct the notion of charity in a manner that is caustic to the Traditional Christian moral vision, (2) Christians are, on the whole, more charitable than proponents of bioethics' reconstructed view (even given the standards of the latter), and (3) the theistically oriented conception of charity employed by Traditional Christianity cannot be expressed in bioethics' purportedly neutral public vocabulary. The upshot is that, in the name of neutrality and pluralism, liberal cosmopolitan bioethicists seek to impose an impoverished moral vocabulary that reflects liberal cosmopolitan ideology while excluding input from Traditional Christianity and other non-liberal-humanistic moral visions.
- Subjects
CHARITY; CHRISTIANITY; LIBERALISM; COSMOPOLITANISM; THEOLOGICAL virtues; BIOETHICS; RELIGION
- Publication
Christian Bioethics: Non-ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
1380-3603
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/13803600500402374