RELIGST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Political Philosophy, Cultural Relativism, Categorical Imperative
27 Jan 2017
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A critique of principlism clouser & gert. Principlism does not function as an ethical theory. The four principles are no more than chapter headings or points to keep in mind when faced with an ethical dilemma in the medical context. The principles do not provide adequate guidance for action. Principlism offers no concrete direction for when the principles conflict. The principles come from different ethical theories, rather than one unified ethical theory: nothing unifies them. A principle ought to summarise an ethical theory. There is no one ethical theory that is in use in medical. An ethical theory ought to have one unifying principle. An ethical theory ought to guide our actions in a systematic way. An ethical theory ought to be impartial and universal. Impartial can be controversial: more or less people concerned with those closes to them or that they have relationship with. Deontology: both ask what one should do.
