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Can the moral commons survive autonomy? (includes commentaries)(In Search of the Good Society: The Work of Daniel Callahan)
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Perhaps nothing has so exasperated me over the years as the deference given in bioethics to the principle of autonomy. To be sure, those who espouse the moral theory of principlism have always insisted that autonomy is only one among other important principles (that is, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence), always to, be balanced against them. But my own observation is that autonomy has had far and away a pride of place in practice. Justice has given it some competition, but most contemporary theories of justice (for example, Rawls) have an individualistic point of departure ...
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