How Can One be Both a Philosophical Ethicist and a Democrat?

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• 作者：Malcolm Oswald (1)
  
  1. Centre for Social Ethics and Policy ; School of Law ; University of Manchester ; Oxford Road ; Manchester ; M13 9PL ; UK
  
• 关键词：Applied ethics ; Bioethics ; Democracy ; Democrat ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophical truth ; Policy ; Policymaking ; Reason
• 刊名：Health Care Analysis
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：63-72
• 全文大小：150 KB
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Public Health
  Philosophy of Medicine
  Ethics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3394

文摘

How can one be both a philosophical ethicist and a democrat? In this article I conclude that it can be difficult to reconcile the two roles. One involves understanding, and reconciling, the conflicting views of citizens, and the other requires the pursuit of truth through reason. Nevertheless, an important function of philosophy and ethics is to inform and improve policy. If done effectively, we could expect better, and more just, laws and policies, thereby benefiting many lives. So applying philosophical thinking to policy is an important job. However, it comes with substantial difficulties, not least in reconciling, or choosing between, competing philosophical theories. Despite the importance of the task, and the apparent obstacles, there is relatively little literature on how to apply ethics to real-world policy-making. Democracies need ethicists who can engage in democratic debate and bridge the gap between philosophy and public policy. I offer some tactics here.