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  • Bioethics
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Public Reason

Background:

  • Bioethicists use moral analysis methods (principlism, casuistry, narrative ethics) to guide policy, research, and clinical practice.
  • Critics question if public reason, central to these methods, possesses adequate moral content for resolving complex bioethical disputes in pluralistic societies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To defend public reason against criticisms that it lacks sufficient moral content.
  • To demonstrate that public reason can address significant bioethical controversies.
  • To introduce and apply a novel
  • reasonability view
  • grounded in public reason to the issue of clinician conscientious objection.

Main Methods:

  • Moral analysis using principlism, casuistry, and narrative ethics.
  • Developing a
  • reasonability view
  • based on public reason principles.
  • Applying the developed view to contemporary cases of conscientious objection in healthcare.

Main Results:

  • Public reason, contrary to criticism, contains sufficient moral content to address bioethical controversies.
  • The proposed
  • reasonability view
  • provides a framework for analyzing conscientious objection.
  • The application of the view demonstrates its utility in resolving complex ethical dilemmas.

Conclusions:

  • Public reason is a viable and robust framework for moral deliberation in bioethics.
  • The
  • reasonability view
  • offers a constructive approach to understanding and managing clinician conscientious objection.
  • Further research can explore the application of this view to other bioethical issues.