Value Pluralism And Coherentist Justification of Ethical Advice |
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Authors: | Ellen-Marie Forsberg |
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Institution: | (1) The National Committees for Research Ethics, P.O. Box 522, Sentrum, 0105 Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | Liberal societies are characterized by respect for a fundamental value pluralism; i.e., respect for individuals’ rights to
live by their own conception of the good. Still, the state must make decisions that privilege some values at the cost of others.
When public ethics committees give substantial ethical advice on policy related issues, it is therefore important that this
advice is well justified. The use of explicit tools for ethical assessment can contribute to justifying advice. In this article,
I will discuss one approach to ethical assessment, the ethical matrix method. This method is a variant of intuitionist balancing.
Intuitionism is characterized by stressing the existence of several (at least two) fundamental prima facie moral principles, between which there is no given rank order. For some intuitionist approaches, coherentism has been proposed
as a model of justification. This article will discuss justification of ethical advice and evaluate the appropriateness of
coherentism as a justificatory approach to intuitionist tools. |
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Keywords: | coherentism ethical matrix ethical tools intuitionist balancing justification prima facie principles value pluralism |
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