Political Bioethics: How should members of a liberal democratic political community decide bioethical issues?
| Termin |
Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2019, 18.00 - 20.00 Uhr |
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| Veranstaltungsart | Vorlesung/Vortrag |
| Einrichtung | An-Institute, Außeruniversitäre Einrichtungen, Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Medizinische Fakultät, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, Philosophische Fakultät I, Philosophische Fakultät II, Philosophische Fakultät III, Sonderforschungsbereich, Theologische Fakultät, Universitätsbund Halle - Jena - Leipzig, Wissenschaftliche Zentren |
| Veranstalter | Forschungsschwerpunkt und Graduiertenschule "Gesellschaft und Kultur in Bewegung" |
| Veranstaltungsort | Löwengebäude, Hörsaal 13 |
| Straße | Universitätsplatz 11 |
| PLZ/Ort | 06108 Halle (Saale) |
| Ansprechpartner | Dr. René Wolfsteller |
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| Telefon | 345-5524077 |
| verwaltung@scm.uni-halle.de |
Beschreibung
Abstract:
How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement? Reasoned debate will not often generate an answer equally accepted to all participants and affected persons. One political means of reaching binding because authoritative decisions are majoritarian democratic institutions. Its core feature is proceduralism, the notion both that no rule is acceptable apart from a formal method, and that the acceptable method yields an acceptable rule; a rule is acceptable by virtue of being the outcome of an agreed-upon procedure. This approach is distinctly political and presupposes values such as legitimacy, order, stability, individual freedom, equality, and toleration of difference. Although not value neutral, it makes agreement and collective action possible in ways that bioethics oriented principally on pre-political ethical and moral values cannot. I demonstrate the usefulness of this approach with several examples.
Speaker:
Professor Benjamin Gregg teaches political and social theory at the University of Texas Austin but also in Germany, Japan, China, Austria, and Brazil. Two of his books, Thick Moralities, Thin Politics and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms, confront challenges of social justice in complex modern societies, especially in liberal democratic states. Another two books, Human Rights as Social Construction (2011) and The Human Rights State (2016), analyze problems and prospects for justice across national borders. He is currently writing a book titled Human Nature as Cultural Design: The Political Challenges of Genetic Enhancement and has presented aspects of this project at invited lectures in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as on the radio and in newspaper interviews.
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