Solomon David
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Christ Bioeth. 2005 Dec;11(3):349-59. doi: 10.1080/13803600500501571.
Though the papers in this volume for the most part address the question, "What is Christian about Christian Bioethics", this paper addresses instead a closely related question, "How would a Christian approach to bioethics differ from the kind of secular academic bioethics that has emerged as such an important field in the contemporary university?" While it is generally assumed that a secular bioethics rooted in moral philosophy will be more culturally authoritative than an approach to bioethics grounded in the contingent particularities of a religious tradition, I will give reasons for rejecting this assumption. By examining the history of the recent revival of academic bioethics as well as the state of the contemporary moral philosophy on which it is based I will suggest that secular bioethics suffers from many of the same liabilities as a carefully articulated Christian bioethics. At the end of the paper I will turn briefly to examine the question of how, in light of this discussion, a Christian bioethics might best be pursued.
虽然本卷中的论文大多探讨的问题是“基督教生物伦理学中的基督教元素是什么”，但本文探讨的却是一个与之密切相关的问题：“基督教对生物伦理学的探讨方式与在当代大学中已成为如此重要领域的世俗学术生物伦理学有何不同？” 虽然人们通常认为，植根于道德哲学的世俗生物伦理学在文化上会比基于宗教传统的偶然特殊性的生物伦理学探讨方式更具权威性，但我将给出理由来反驳这一假设。通过审视学术生物伦理学近期复兴的历史以及其赖以建立的当代道德哲学的状况，我将表明，世俗生物伦理学与经过精心阐述的基督教生物伦理学一样，存在许多相同的弊端。在论文结尾，我将简要探讨鉴于此讨论，如何才能最好地进行基督教生物伦理学研究这一问题。
