6/30/2023 0 Comments Aristotle ethics and politics![]() ![]() This happens both at the national level and at the international level through various organizations such as the United Nations. This account of the good life rejects and undermines many religious commitments, despite claiming to be universal and neutral. Such efforts have failed, and the result is a politically active bioethics that seeks to use the authority of the state to enforce a particular account of the good life. Efforts to describe a common morality that transcends particular religious commitments dominate much of the bioethics literature and the work of public bioethics. Bioethics in the west has its origins largely in the political setting and remains politically oriented. Contemporary bioethics in the west reflects an account of the state that, like Aristotle’s state, has a substantial role to play in enforcing an account of the good life. The polis is essential to fostering the good life and exists for a moral purpose. ![]() Wake Forest University, Department of Philosophy, Center for Bioethics,įor Aristotle, ethics and politics are inseparable. ![]()
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