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KMID : 1011120090030020135
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2009 Volume.3 No. 2 p.135 ~ p.153
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Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics and Its application to Bioethics
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Kim Soo-Jung
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Abstract
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Four Principles which Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress introduce in Principles of Biomedical Ethics represent essential values in bioethics and are applied to many relevant cases. These principles are helpful in analyzing and assessing relevant issues in bioethics. Identifying and establishing principles tends to overlook particularity of relevant persons and restrict them to limited options of choice. This paper will examine what principle oriented approach overlooks from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics. First, it will introduce what Aristotle defines as virtue and provides as list of particular virtues. Second, it will analyze virtue oriented approach which focuses on the character of moral agent and identify difficulties in applying virtue ethics to bioethical issue. Third, it will examine four cases that Raanan Gillon presented in Journal of Medical Ethics in 2003 from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Last, it will explore what virtue ethics will contribute to bioethics.
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KEYWORD
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Raanan Guillon, Virtue ethics, Biothics, Four principles, Aristotle
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