Die Moral des Risikos und das Risiko der Moral

Abstract

• (892) Luhmann tried to explain the boom in bioethics. He speaks of moral reshaping of issues that are in reality questions of risk. -> This treats This treats ethics, especially in the form of institutionalized expertise, as a kind of delayed politicization of disputed questions in which certain parties and positions are not represented (Luhmann 1997) o Bogner: by arguing this way, Luhmann fails to to do justice to the kind of political discourse that ethics encourage. Ethics is not an ideological kind of risk discourse, “but rather a distinct discourse that frames conflicts over technology in a specific way and creates new obligations to negotiate and to legitimize one’s position, as we argue“