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The title of my article carries a significant theoretical difficulty. In what sense can we speak about cultural diversity and “ethics”? In the work “Modernity – An Incomplete Project” Habermas recalls the idea of Max Weber fundamental to this topic who “characterised cultural modernity as the separation of substantive reason expressed in religion and metaphysics into three autonomous spheres. They are: science, morality, and art” (Habermas 1987: 148). That is why as soon as we start using the word “ethics” which from the time of Aristotle has meant a theoretical (secular) way of discriminating “good” and “evil”, we are immediately in danger of losing “cultural diversity” as soon as other forms of moral evaluation are neglected.
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TISHCHENKO, P. (2006). DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDICAL ETHICS. In: Rehmann-Sutter, C., Düwell, M., Mieth, D. (eds) Bioethics in Cultural Contexts. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4241-8_16
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