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The foundations of Christian bioethics /

For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lisse (Netherlands) ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger, [2000]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Biblical Quotations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • From Christian Bioethics to Secular Bioethics: The Establishment of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Morality
  • Can Morality be Sectarian?
  • Christian Bioethics: Confused and Eclipsed
  • Christian vs. Secular Bioethics: The Disappearance of a Difference
  • Moral Crises and the Medieval Faith in Reason
  • From the Reformation and the Enlightenment to Secular Bioethics
  • The Enlightenment and its Dirty Hands
  • Faith in Secular Rationality Unshaken: Secular Medical Ethics and the Medical HumanitiesWhy a Canonical, Content-full Secular Bioethics Cannot be Justified in General Secular Terms: Content Requires Assumptions
  • From a Libertarian to a Liberal Cosmopolitan: The Background of Post-Traditional Christianity
  • Christian Bioethics Reconsidered
  • Notes
  • At the Roots of Bioethics: Reason, Faith, and the Unity of Morality
  • Religious and Secular Ethics: Rethinking the Project of Morality
  • Pluralism and Conflict in Ethics and Bioethics: The Right, the Good, the Particular, and GodImmanuel Kant and his As-If God
  • The Necessity of Contingency: Hegel and the Justification of Moral Particularity
  • Rationality, Belief, and Kierkegaard: Being a Christian in the Post-Christian Age
  • Reason, Faith, and Bioethics
  • Notes
  • Christian Bioethics as a Human Project: Taking Immanence Seriously
  • The Enlightenment's Bequest
  • Knowledge, Morality, and Religion as Limited Human Projects
  • Three Visions of the Secular Cosmopolis: Living in a World Deaf to God
  • Christianity Transformed: Towards a Christian Bioethics Without TranscendenceChristian Bioethics Reconsidered
  • Notes
  • Bioethics and Transcendence: At the Heart of the Culture Wars
  • Sects, Cults, Fundamentalism, and Traditional Christian Bioethics
  • From Discursive Reason to Spiritual Change
  • Disbelief: A Moral Choice, not a Miscalculation
  • Christian Bioethics: The Knowledge of the Heart and the Natural Law
  • Nature, Natural Law, and the Fall
  • Moral and Theological Knowledge as a Spiritual Journey
  • Christian Bioethics and Theological Knowledge
  • Moral Theology, Christian Bioethics, and the Community of KnowersKnowing Truly: Bishops, Councils, Popes, and Prophets
  • Two Senses of Theology, Two Senses of Christian Bioethics
  • Bioethics in Time and with Persons
  • Notes
  • Procreation: Reproduction, Cloning, Abortion, and Birth
  • Out of Step: The Traditional Christian Bioethics of Sexuality versus the Emerging Secular Liberal Cosmopolitan Consensus
  • Bioethics as a Lived Ethics
  • The Mystery of Marriage
  • Sexuality: Rightly and Wrongly Directed.