Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics

Bioethical principles are said to be universal, and this contributes to making bioethics global. Those principles are abstracted from culturally different practices. However, they are intermediate. For example, what underlies the principle of Respect for Autonomy can be Kantian deontology or Mill‘s utilitarian liberalism, and we apply them to concrete problems. That is to say, those principles exist between the basic level of philosophy and the