Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue inbioethics. over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitabletools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. emerging thecontemporary bioethics in the west has resulted in a misconception that absolutewesternized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical decision making in differentcultures. we will discuss this issue by introducing a clinical case. considering variouscultural beliefs around the world, though it is not logical to consider all of them ethicallyacceptable, we can gather on some general fundamental principles instead of going tothe extremes of relativism and absolutism. islamic teachings, according to the presentedevidence in this paper, fall in with this idea.