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Pragmatic Principles – Methodological Pragmatism in the Principle-Based Approach to Bioethics
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| Author | Schmidt-Felzmann, Heike |
| Abstract | In this paper it will be argued that Beauchamp and Childress ’ principle-based approach to bioethics has strongly pragmatic features. Drawing on the writings of William James, I first develop an understanding of methodological pragmatism as a method of justification. On the basis of Beauchamp’s and Childress ’ most recent proposals concerning moral justification in the fifth edition of their Principles of Biomedical Ethics (2001), I then discuss different aspects that the principle-based approach and methodological pragmatism have in common. |
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