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LIMITS OF BIOETHICS

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Bioethics in Cultural Contexts

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ((LIME,volume 28))

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If ethics is to say anything helpful concerning human practice it must develop a vision of what is good in human life. This is the job of ethics. But in attempting this we are to a certain extent afflicted by the epistemological limitations of our vision and knowledge of practice. An ethics that does not reflect on these constraints would not be eligible as a good guide.

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    Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

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  2. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Marcus Düwell

  3. University of Tübingen, Germany

    Dietmar Mieth

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Rehmann-Sutter, C. (2006). LIMITS OF BIOETHICS. 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_5

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