| Triangular reflective equilibrium: a conscience-based method for bioethical deliberation. | |
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PMID: 20132193 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Following a discussion of some historical roots of conscience, we offer a systematized version of reflective equilibrium. Aiming at a comprehensive methodology for bioethical deliberation, we develop an expanded variant of reflective equilibrium, which we call 'triangular reflective equilibrium' and which incorporates insights from hermeneutics, critical theory and narrative ethics. We focus on a few distinctions, mainly between methods of justification in ethics and the social practice of bioethical deliberation, between coherence in ethical reasoning, personal integrity and consensus formation, and between political and moral deliberation. The ideal of deliberation is explicated as a sharing of conscience within a special commitment to sincerity and openness to persuasion. Personal growth in wisdom is an indirect by-product of the continuous practice of moral deliberation. This is explicated in the light of Sternberg's balance theory of wisdom and in the context of medicine as a profession embodying altruistic responsibilities of care in democratic and pluralistic societies. |
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Y Michael Barilan; Margherita Brusa |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-02-03 |
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Title: Bioethics Volume: 25 ISSN: 1467-8519 ISO Abbreviation: Bioethics Publication Date: 2011 Jul |
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Created Date: 2011-06-08 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8704792 Medline TA: Bioethics Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 304-19 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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Tel Aviv University Paediatric Department of Padua's Children Hospital and in Tel Aviv University. |
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