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    High moral theory is useful and attractive in bioethics b... — Carmelics
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    High moral theory is useful and attractive in bioethics because it provides structured guidance when routine moral coping skills fail.

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    • 1.Routine moral coping skills work often enough in everyday life and bioethics, but sometimes fail.
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    • 2.When routine moral coping skills fail, more structured and systematic moral guidance is needed.
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    • 3.High moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology offer structured and systematic moral guidance.
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    • 1.High moral theories systematically disagree with each other, so invoking them in hard cases multiplies conflict rather than resolving it.
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    • 2.When routine moral coping fails, competing theoretical frameworks (utilitarian vs. Kantian) typically yield opposing verdicts on the same bioethical dilemma.
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    • 3.Structured guidance that produces contradictory directives offers no action-guiding advantage over the unstructured intuitions it was meant to replace.
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    • 1.Moral expertise in bioethics is constituted by particularist skill in reading context, not by application of abstract principles — as Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics regarding phronesis.
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    • 2.High moral theory abstracts away precisely the contextual features — patient history, relational obligations, institutional setting — that determine the right bioethical response.
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    • 3.Therefore, recourse to high theory when coping skills fail replaces one inadequacy with a more systematic form of moral blindness to the particular case.
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    What might explain such recourse to high moral theory? What are the attractions of high moral theory for the bioethicist? Let us consider three important possibilities. First, in bioethics as in everyday life, our routine moral coping skills work often enough. When they do not, though, we need recourse to more structured and systematic moral guidance. On these occasions, high moral theory, such as consequentialism and deontology, looks helpful and attractive. Besides offering guidance, such theo
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