A report from East Asia - Self-determination vs. family-determination: Two incommensurable principles of autonomy
A report from East Asia - Self-determination vs. family-determination: Two incommensurable principles of autonomy
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10.1111/1467-8519.00070
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发表时间：
1997-07-01
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2.2
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Fan, RP
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作者：
Fan, RP
当代生命伦理学家大多认为，西方生命伦理学的原则，如自主性原则，在生命伦理学的任何地方都具有普遍的约束力，这些原则在不同的国家或地区的应用可能受到文化条件的进一步解释，但每一原则的“抽象内容”是不变的。它为“道德判断和国际法提供了客观依据”。本文旨在证明事实并非如此。本文以自主性原则为例，认为西方生命伦理学的自主性原则与东亚生命伦理学的自主性原则之间并不存在这种共同的“抽象内容”。在其他条件相同的情况下，西方的自治原则要求自决，假设一种主观的善的概念，并促进个人独立的价值，而东亚的自治原则要求家庭决定，预设一种客观的善的概念，并坚持和谐依赖的价值。它们在最一般的意义上和最基本的道德要求上是不同的。
Most contemporary bioethicists believe that Western bioethical principles, such as the principle of autonomy, are universally binding wherever bioethics is found. According to these bioethicists, these principles may be subject to culturally-conditioned further interpretations for their application in different nations or regions, but an 'abstract content' of each principle remains unchanged, which provides 'an objective basis for moral judgment and international law'. This essay intends to demonstrate that this is not the case. Taking the principle of autonomy as an example, this essay argues that there is no such shared 'abstract content' between the Western bioethical principle of autonomy and the East Asian bioethical principle of autonomy. Other things being equal, the Western principle of autonomy demands self-determination, assumes a subjective conception of the good and promotes the value of individual independence, whilst the East Asian principle of autonomy requires family-determination, presupposes an objective conception of the good and upholds the value of harmonious dependence. They differ from each other in the most general sense and basic moral requirement.