caa a22 4500 445798181 CHVBK 20180317145132.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11017-011-9185-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11017-011-9185-x Hine Kristen Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, 21252, Towson, MD, USA aut What is the outcome of applying principlism? [Elektronische Daten] [Kristen Hine] The four principles approach to bioethics, an approach most associated with the work of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress, is supposed to provide a framework for reasoning through moral issues in medicine. One might wonder, if one were to guide one's thinking by the method suggested by principlism, will one identify and perform the objectively morally right action? Will one's decision making be justified, and consequently, will the action that flows from that decision itself be justified? In this paper, I show that principlism can, and has been, characterized in these two different ways. I also argue that when it is understood according to the first characterization, the view cannot be put into practice. However, when it is understood as an account of justification, there is reason to think that it is indeed action-guiding. Given the problems that confront the first version of the view, perhaps it is best to understand principlism, and biomedical ethical theories generally, not as action-guiding theories of right action, but rather, as procedures by which one's decisions and actions in medicine can achieve a reasonable degree of moral justification. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Principlism nationallicence Rightness nationallicence Justification nationallicence Action-guiding nationallicence Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/6(2011-12-01), 375-388 1386-7415 32:6<375 2011 32 11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9185-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9185-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hine Kristen Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, 21252, Towson, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/6(2011-12-01), 375-388 1386-7415 32:6<375 2011 32 11017 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer