McCullough Laurence B
Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1996 Dec;6(4):329-33. doi: 10.1353/ken.1996.0049.
Those of us who work in the field of bioethics tend to think that, because the word "bioethics" is new, so too the field is new in all respects, but we are not the first to do bioethics. John Gregory (1724-1773) did bioethics just as we do it, at least two centuries before we thought to do it. He deployed philosophical methods as sophisticated as our own. Indeed, Gregory took up the very best moral philosophy available to thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, namely, David Hume's moral philosophy and its core concept of sympathy. Gregory also responded in a conceptually powerful and clinically applicable way to the problems of his time, just as we do. I want here to outline Gregory's accomplishment and to identify some aspects of its importance for bioethics in the twenty-first century.
我们这些从事生物伦理学领域工作的人往往认为，因为“生物伦理学”这个词是新的，所以这个领域在各方面也都是新的，但我们并非最早进行生物伦理学研究的人。约翰·格雷戈里（1724 - 1773）所做的生物伦理学研究和我们现在做的一样，至少比我们开始做这件事早了两个世纪。他运用了和我们一样复杂的哲学方法。事实上，格雷戈里采用了苏格兰启蒙运动思想家所能接触到的最好的道德哲学，也就是大卫·休谟的道德哲学及其核心概念同情。格雷戈里也像我们一样，以一种在概念上强有力且临床适用的方式回应了他那个时代的问题。我在此想概述一下格雷戈里的成就，并指出其对21世纪生物伦理学的一些重要方面。
