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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Ethics
  • Moral Philosophy

Background:

  • Principlism, a framework in biomedical ethics, is based on common morality.
  • Recent challenges question the autonomy of medical ethics and the existence of common morality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To respond to two recent critiques of common-morality principlism.
  • To defend the framework against claims of medical ethics autonomy and the denial of common morality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of critiques of common-morality principlism.
  • Philosophical argumentation to refute the critiques.

Main Results:

  • The critiques fundamentally misunderstand common-morality principlism.
  • Proposed alternatives to common-morality approaches have significant deficiencies.

Conclusions:

  • Common-morality principlism remains a valid and essential framework for biomedical ethics.
  • The critiques fail to provide a viable alternative to common-morality approaches.