The Tristram Hengelhardt’s bioethics: between the contradiction and postmodernity

Abstract

The paper approaches how moral judgments can be formulated, from the bioethics and social perspective, without being material. The failure of extensive narrations entails moral fragmentation and pluralism in postmodernity. According to Engelhardt, since there are no secular arguments to settle the controversy between different moral visions, they become “moral strangers”, and their differences must be settled by agreement, what implies a disenchantment of reason, and an act of distrust in its structural capacity to reach objective solutions to ethical and bioethical problems. This paper is a discussion on a topic described in Engelhardt’s work.