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This study explores the decline of virtue in ethics and proposes its rehabilitation in bioethics, particularly in healthcare, to enhance professional character and patient relationships. Integrating virtue with personalistic bioethics offers a solution to ethical minimalism.

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Area of Science:

Bioethics
Moral Philosophy
Medical Ethics

Context:

The concept of virtue as a cornerstone of ethical action is diminishing.
Current bioethics, particularly principlism, exhibits ethical minimalism.
There's a need to re-evaluate the role of virtue in moral frameworks.

Purpose:

To analyze the erosion of virtue in ethical action.
To explore the rehabilitation of virtue in ethics and bioethics.
To examine the integration of virtue within personalistic bioethics.

Summary:

The article discusses the decline of virtue in ethics and proposes its revival, especially in healthcare, to foster professionals' ethical character and improve patient interactions.
It critiques the reasoning deficit in current bioethical approaches due to a lack of comprehensive action theories.
The study investigates the synergy between virtue and personalistic bioethics, highlighting virtue's role in integrating good and norms.

Impact:

Rehabilitating virtue in bioethics can shift focus from case-based ethics to professional character development.
This integration can enhance the human dimension and technical quality of healthcare.
Integrating virtue into personalistic bioethics offers a robust alternative to ethical minimalism in principlism-driven bioethics.