Bioethics and Liberal Ethics

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Today, nine years on from the publication of Uberto Scarpelli's first essay on bioethics, the moment has come to review the debate it triggered, especially among analytical philosophers. Scarpelli, who walks a reflective tightrope between divisionist meta-ethics and liberal ethics, has left an enduring mark on Italian bioethics, proposing a number of possibilities for research – as the most recent developments in liberal political theory demonstrate. Scarpelli's approach is also an example of a "thematic" conception of practical philosophy. As such, it is firmly opposed to some forms of intuitionism that have become entrenched among analytical philosophers in recent years.