Baccarini, Elvio2019-09-252019-09-252012-10-0320091825-5167http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/187499Two issues in Cowley’s book Medical Ethics, Ordinary Concepts and Ordinary Lives are discussed. The first regards the opposition between the methodological approach based on moral theories and moral principles and that based on ordinary meanings. The discussion is developed through the opposition between the approach based on propositional knowledge and the approach based on experiential knowledge. The second issue regards moral disagreement and change of seeing.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderCowleyMedical ethicsMoral principlePolitical ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsArticle