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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Casado da Rocha, Antonio
• Menéndez Viso, Armando

Titel

FACT AND VALUE IN BIOETHICS: HOW TO GET RID OF THE DICHOTOMY

Ist Teil von

• Praxis Filosófica, 2008-06 (26), p.245-264

Ort / Verlag

Universidad del Valle

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article offers a perspective on recent developments in bioethics, a field in which the distinction between fact and value is pervasive. By surveying how the word “value” is used in principle- based, mainstream biomedical ethics, it is shown that some uses enforce an essentialist tendency to speak of values as freestanding entities.As an illustration and explanation of the increasing pervasiveness of this language, both in English-speaking and Spanish-speaking bioethics, we describe the role of “value talk” in recent writings by Diego Gracia.We focus on how his proposal of a methodology for bioethics uses the fact/value dichotomy, and analyse his position in relation to the agenda for the debate on the concepts of health and disease proposed by George Khushf. As a conclusion, we suggest an alternative way of thinking about values in order to overcome the dichotomy.