Global bioethics and respect for cultural diversity: how do we avoid moral relativism and moral imperialism?

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-620
Author(s):  
Mbih Jerome Tosam
Conatus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah

This paper is a tribute to H.T. Engelhardt Jr. for the intellectual resources he provided to challenge cosmopolitan liberalism as the foundation for an overarching global bioethics in the post-modern world. It is a also a tribute to the moral pluralism and cultural diversity which he argued so forcefully in all his works and which have inspired the flourishing of fierce bioethical debates across the world, including in the non-Western and Asian societies.


Author(s):  
John C. Gibbs

This chapter reviews—and moves beyond—Haidt’s new synthesis of trends in disciplines (such as social psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology) pertinent to morality and enculturation. Reviewed are his major themes: ingroup solidarity, intuitive primacy, and social persuasion (rather than truth or objectivity) as the function of moral reasoning. His work reminds us of our pretensions and the major role of innately prepared, fast, preconscious intuitions in morality. He discusses the phylogenetic history and neurology of those intuitions and their shaping through culture. We are also reminded of the values of phylogenetic humility, scientific description, and cultural diversity. In the final analysis, however, three serious limitations of Haidt’s theory—a negative skew or inadequacy in descriptive work; an unwarranted exclusion of the prescriptive implications of the higher reaches in morality; and moral relativism—overshadow its contributions.


1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Irving ◽  
Harold Perl ◽  
Edison J. Trickett ◽  
Rod Watts
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2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 756-759
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mantovani
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