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How to depolarise the ethical debate over human embryonic stem cell research (and other ethical debates too!)
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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017Utilitarianism in disguise will remain unconvincing to manyShow More
The authors submit an ethical theory which rejects categorical conceptions of right and wrong, and adopts a scaled view of rightness, believing that it can depolarise the debate over the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) in medical research. I will argue that their proposal is unsuccessful.
They argue that binary ethics must be forgone in preference of a non- binary understanding of rightness and wrongnes...
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