Prolegomena to Any Future Bioethics

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AbstractThe field of bioethics has incorporated the theory and principles of moral philosophy and has become adept at dealing with cases. However, practitioners of bioethics are often unfamiliar with the standard arguments or “commonplaces” associated with ethical discourse, such as arguments about “finality,” “intention,” “free will,” etc. These commonplaces underlie many of the current problems of bioethics, and bioethicists should acquire mastery of them.KeywordsMoral JudgmentMoral PhilosophyEthical TheoryStem Cell ResearchFemale Genital MutilationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.