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Re-Reasoning Ethics - The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Hardcover)
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Re-Reasoning Ethics - The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Bioethics
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How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason
produces richer ethical understandings of human situations,
explored and illustrated with many real examples. In Re-Reasoning
Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower
ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation
as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal
paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to
promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason
produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human
situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by
moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and
bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment
that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require.
Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more expansive
rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in
ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the
empirical world of science but also to the empirical realities of
human lives. Among the many real cases they present is that of how
women at risk of having children with genetic conditions decide
whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply the
formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by
genetic counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their
lives could be like with an affected child and assess whether they
could accept the worst of these scenarios. Hoffmaster and Hooker
explain how moral compromise and a liberated, extended, and
enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment rational ethical
deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design
ethical practices, institutions, and policies.
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