Problems of principlism

Laurens Landeweerd

Problems of principlism

In: Ethics and the politics of food

Author:

Laurens Landeweerd

Laurens Landeweerd University of Maastricht, Faculty of Health and Science, Dept. of Health Ethics and Philosophy, PO box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, l.landeweerd@zw.unimaas.nl

Search for other papers by Laurens Landeweerd in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

Type:: Chapter

Pages:: 128–132

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_021

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

€42.00€35.00 excl. VAT

Add to Cart

Redeem Access Token

Principlism, or principle based ethics, was one of the first approaches in bioethics. An important problem in principlism is that the interpretation of highly generalized principles to a certain practice with all its particularities, is not self-evident. Even with the idea of a reflective equilibrium and a specification of these principles, one still needs certain criteria that indicate how a principle is to be interpreted in practice. Part of the issue lies in the very idea of a method of ethics. However, to reduce ethics to mere practical regularities would also imply a problem of justification. So, the move away from theory has not solved this foundational problem either. Especially in regard to the ongoing GM-controversy it will be necessary to develop a democratic alternative for principlism in food ethics. Maybe ethics can only partly be made explicit, in the form of rules, guidelines or principles, with the sole purpose of clarity or uniformity. But then, what will be left to justify our beliefs?

Citation Info

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share link with colleague or librarian

You can email a link to this page to a colleague or librarian:
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/9789086865758/BP000021.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

Collapse
Expand

Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086865758

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2006

Subjects
- Life Sciences

Metrics

	All Time	Past 365 days	Past 30 Days
Abstract Views	108	44	15
Full Text Views	1	0	0
PDF Views & Downloads	1	1	0

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

Authors

Open Access

Product Information

Company

Contact

Problems of principlism

Citation Info

Share link with colleague or librarian

Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

Table of Contents

Metrics

Metrics