Bioethics critically reconsidered

Tristram Engelhardt (ed)

Springer - Berlin

2012

Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics.

Hegel reconsidered

Tristram Engelhardt, Terry Pinkard (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1994

Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. He has been described both as a metaphysician and characterized as an ironic narrator who anticipated the character of philosophy after metaphysics.

New knowledge in the biomedical sciences

William B. Bondeson, Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker, Joseph M. White Jr (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1982

The roots of ethics

Daniel Callahan, Tristram Engelhardt (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1981

Our age is characterized by an uncertainty about the na­ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: what can we know, what ought we to do, and what can we hope for.