ABSTRACT
In the days of intense academic competition, which is supposed to keep us all on our toes, one has to publish or be damned; and for advancing one's career it is more important that what one publishes should be new, than that it should be true. Often it is not as new as one thinks it is; sometimes, if one looks back to the great philosophers of the past, one finds that one's bright new ideas have been anticipated by them. Situation ethics does not do much good for bioethics beyond that of deterring us from oversimplification of the issues. The chapter concludes by pointing out how important the considerations, which apply to all moral thinking, are for bioethics in particular.
