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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142007| Title: | What does ethics have to do with consensus? Experiences from the Council of Europe and the European group on ethics |
| Other Titles: | Mapping a moral consensus : calibrating an ethical compass for the future - Festschrift in honour of Mgr Professor Emmanuel Agius on the occasion of his seventieth birthday |
| Authors: | Virt, Günter |
| Keywords: | Ethics -- European Union countries Bioethics -- Europe Consensus (Social sciences) Christian ethics Human embryo -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| Issue Date: | 2025 |
| Publisher: | Kite Group |
| Citation: | Virt, G. (2025). What does ethics have to do with consensus? Experiences from the Council of Europe and the European group on ethics. In R. Zammit, & S. M. Attard (Eds.), Mapping a moral consensus : calibrating an ethical compass for the future - Festschrift in honour of Mgr Professor Emmanuel Agius on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (pp. 371-384). Malta: Kite. |
| Abstract: | Together with my highly esteemed friend Emmanuel Agius, I worked for many years in a very constructive and fruitful way in the European Union’s Ethics Commission. This essay is dedicated to him in gratitude. As early as 1993, the then President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, wisely recognised that politics requires not only scientific, social science, and legal advice but also ethical advice. As a result, many European Union (EU) member states established national ethics committees. Initially, this small advisory group of nine people within the EU focused primarily on bioethical issues, for which the European Union developed common legal regulations. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142007 |
| ISBN: | 9789918231997 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume I |
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