Charting Moral Psychology’s Significance for Bioethics: Routes to Bioethical Progress, its Limits, and Lessons from Moral Philosophy

The bioethical principles and Confucius' moral philosophy.

This paper examines whether the modern bioethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice proposed by Beauchamp and Childress are existent in, compatible with, or acceptable to the leading Chinese moral philosophy-the ethics of Confucius. The author concludes that the moral values which the four prima facie principles uphold are expressly identifiable in Co...

Moral philosophy in bioethics. Etsi ethos non daretur?

In this paper I intend to put forward some criticism of the purely procedural model of bioethics, which, in fact, leads to delegating to biopolitics and biolaw the finding of a purely pragmatic solution to the issues for which bioethics was "invented" over forty years ago. This delegating takes place after the transition from the thesis, dear to modernity, whereby in ethics reasoning should avo...

Relationship between Moral Philosophy and Readiness for Change: Mediating Role of Moral Responsibility

Background: Readiness for change as the guarantor of the survival and development of organizations can be developed effectively in the light of moral philosophy and moral responsibility. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between moral philosophy and readiness for change with the mediating role of moral responsibility. Method: This is a descriptive-correlation research. T...

Nonreductive moral classification and the limits of philosophy.

Serious Moral Games in Bioethics

Our contribution discusses the possibilities and limits of using video games for apprehending and reflecting on the moral actions of its players. We briefly present the results of an extended study [1] that introduces the conceptual idea of a Serious Moral Game (SMG). We outline its possible application in bioethics for training medical professionals such that they can deal better with moral pr...