A Confucian View of Personhood and Bioethics

Yu, Erika; Fan, Ruiping

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“…David Wong labels the interdependent nature of personhood as "the developmental sense of relationality" (Wong 2004: 421). However, his use of "developmental" differs significantly from the use of the term by Yu and Fan (2007) as characterizing the processual nature of Confucian personhood. Here, I follow the use of "developmental" by Yu and Fan. 10.…”

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The Public and Geoengineering Decision-Making

Wong

2013

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

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In response to the Royal Society report’s claim that “the acceptability of geoengineering will be determined as much by social, legal, and political issues as by scientific and technical factors” (Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty [London: Royal Society, 2009], ix), a number of authors have suggested the key to this challenge is to engage the public in geoengineering decision-making. In effect, some have argued that inclusion of the public in geoengineering decision-making is necessary for any geoengineering project to be morally permissible. Yet, while public engagement on geoengineering comes in various forms, the discussion in geoengineering governance and the ethics of geoengineering have too often conceptualized it exclusively in terms of public participation in decision-making, and supported it by various liberal democratic values. However, if the predominant understanding of public engagement on—or, the role of the public in—geoengineering decision-making is indeed only grounded on liberal democratic values, then its normative relevance could be challenged by and in other ethical-political traditions that do not share those values. In this paper, I shall explore these questions from a Confucian perspective. I argue that the liberal democratic values invoked in support of the normative importance of public participation are, at least, foreign to Confucian political philosophy. This presents a prima facie challenge to view public participation in geoengineering decision-making as a universal moral requirement, and invites us to reconsider the normative significance of this form of public engagement in Confucian societies. Yet, I contend that the role of the public remains normatively significant in geoengineering governance and the ethics of geoengineering from a Confucian perspective. Drawing from recent work on Confucian political philosophy, I illustrate the potential normative foundation for public engagement on geoengineering decision-making.

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The Public and Geoengineering Decision-Making

Wong

2013

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

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“…464 Davidson, 1984;Dresner, 2011 465 Ibid. 466 Ames, 2010;Berberich et al, 2020;Li, 2006;McStay, 2021;Wong 2012Wong , 2020Wong & Wang, 2021;Yao & Yao, 2000;Yu &Fan, 2007 467 Carter andMcCarthy, 2014;Hershock, 2021;Hongladarom, 2007Hongladarom, , 2016bKalupahana, 1987;Nishitani, 1982;Vallor, 2016468 Simpson, 2017Lewis et al, 2020;Tallbear, 2019469 Eze, 2008Gyekye, 1992;Kalumba, 2020;Mbiti, 1970;Menkiti, 1984;Mhlambi, 2020;Ogunbanjo & Bogaert, 2005; Wariboko & Falola, 2020 470 Dewey, 1927470 Dewey, , 1997470 Dewey, [1933 471 Apel, 1984472 Habermas, 1987[1981, 2008 473 Honneth, 1995474 Buber, 1958, 1963 475 Levinas, 1969Levinas, , 1978Levinas, , 1987Levinas, , 1993Levinas, , 1998Levinas, , 1999 Indigenous Data Sovereignty…”

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Advancing Data Justice Research and Practice: An Integrated Literature Review

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“…The capacity to communicate and maintain ‘psychological continuity,’ moral agency and self-awareness is critical to a person's ability to expand his or her own potential for individuality 14. The Individual Ring expands as a person's various abilities mature and become more consistent.…”

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Accounting for personhood in palliative sedation: the Ring Theory of Personhood

Krishna

2013

Med Humanities

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Application of sedation at the end of life has been fraught with ethical and clinical concerns, primarily focused on its potential to hasten death. However, in the face of clinical data that assuage most of these concerns, a new threat to this treatment of last resort has arisen. Concern now pivots on its effects on the personhood of the patient, underpinned by the manner in which personhood has been conceptualised. For many authors, it is consciousness that is seen to be the seat of personhood, thus its loss is seen to rob a patient of their moral and ethical worth, leaving them in a state that cannot ethically be differentiated from death. Here I proffer a clinically based alternative to this view, the Ring Theory of Personhood, which dispels these concerns about sedation at the end of life. The Ring Theory envisages personhood as a coadunation of three domains of concern: the innate, the individual and the relational elements of personhood. The innate element of personhood is held to be present among all humans by virtue of their links with the Divine and or their human characteristics. The individual elements of personhood pivot on the presence of consciousness-dependent features such as self-awareness, self-determination and personality traits. The relational component of personhood envisages an individual as being 'socially embedded' replete with social and familial ties. It is these three equally important inter-related domains that define personhood.

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A Confucian View of Personhood and Bioethics

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

The Public and Geoengineering Decision-Making

The Public and Geoengineering Decision-Making

Advancing Data Justice Research and Practice: An Integrated Literature Review

Accounting for personhood in palliative sedation: the Ring Theory of Personhood

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