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Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

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DARKO POLŠEK<br />

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia /<br />

Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska<br />

PRINCIPALISM AND THE REFLEXIVE<br />

EQUILIBRIUM IN BIOETHICS<br />

Some scholars (Clouser, Gert, Green, Hoffmaster, Jonsen, Toulmin)<br />

have tried to discard the value of principalism in bioethics exposed by<br />

Beauchamp and Childress, and tried to prove the following: that principalism<br />

lacks “theory”; that in bioethics a “bottom-up” approach is more<br />

viable and justified; that it amounts to a mere “reflexive equilibrium”,<br />

and the arguments of the kind. In this paper I am going to provide some<br />

arguments in favor of the view that principalism is still the best bioethical<br />

theory.<br />

PRINCIPALIZAM I REFLEKSIVNI<br />

EKVILIBRIJ U BIOETICI<br />

Neki su teoretičari (Clouser, Gert, Green, Hoffmaster, Jonsen, Toulmin)<br />

pokušali umanjiti vrijednost principalizma Beauchampa i Childressa<br />

u bioetici dokazivanjem: kako principalizam nije dovoljno teoretičan, kako<br />

nije dovoljno kontekstualiziran, kako je bioetičkim problemima načelno<br />

bolje pristupati bottom up, kako je riječ o najobičnijem refleksivnom ekvilibriju,<br />

i sličnim argumentima. U ovome radu pokušat ću pružiti argumente<br />

zbog kojih je principalizam i dalje najbolja bioetička teorija.<br />

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