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The necessity of making consensus an object of study in social science research, legal philosophy, and ethics is a specifically democratic achievement and duty at the same time. Pre-democratic forms of society have no need to make an issue of the processes involved in coming to a consensus precisely because these societies hardly ever rest upon a consensus emerging from such a procedure. For all of us, however, the search for a rational strategy of consensus, primarily in ethical questions, poses the only feasible alternative to bellum omnium in omnes.1
Translated from German by Doris Wagner-Glenn
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Bondolfi, A. (1994). Coming to Consensus: An Ethical Problem in Law and Politics — Illustrated by the Example of Reproductive Technologies. In: Bayertz, K. (eds) The Concept of Moral Consensus. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0860-7_9
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