On the Sanctity of Nature

Concerns about the sacred—common in everyday moral thinking—have crept into bioethics in various forms. Further, given a certain view of the metaphysics of morals that is now widely endorsed in Western philosophy, there is in principle no reason that judgments about the sacred cannot be part of care...

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Published inThe Hastings Center report Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 16 - 23
Main Author KAEBNICK, GREGORY E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2000
The Hastings Center
Hastings Center
Subjects
Anxiety
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Environmental ethics
Ethics
Euthanasia
Genetic engineering
Humans
Judgment
Moral judgment
Morality
Nature
Philosophy
Religion
Wolves
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Summary:Concerns about the sacred—common in everyday moral thinking—have crept into bioethics in various forms. Further, given a certain view of the metaphysics of morals that is now widely endorsed in Western philosophy, there is in principle no reason that judgments about the sacred cannot be part of careful and reasoned moral deliberation.
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ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
DOI:10.2307/3527882