道德冲突世界中的生命伦理学:基本争论及干细胞辩论的要点

世界上存在着道德多元性，它表现为生命伦理学的实际道德分布的特征，它是使用人类胚胎作为干细胞来源的争论的根本原因。在世俗文化中，干细胞的使用甚至也会出现疑问。只以从传统的基督教道德直觉和期望的残留影响角度去理解这种现象。关于干细胞的争论反映了更深层次的文化错位。我们正生活在文化战争频发的年代。有必要对罗尔斯学派的关于公共讨论及理性的道德多元化给予重新的关注和评价。

Bioethics in a World of Moral Conflict:Forits of Fundamental Dispute and the Stem-cell Debates

There is the moral deversity in the world,which characterize the actural moral geography of bioethics and grounds the debates regarding the use of human embryos as a source of stem cells.The use of stem cell even appears problematic in a secular culture.It can only be understood in terms of the influence of remnants of traditional Christian moral intuitions and expectation.The stem cell debates express deeper cultural fault-lines.We are living in the age of the culture wars.Rawlsian expectations regarding public discourse and resonable moral pluralism should be given re-appraisment.