ABSTRACT

This chapter offers an approach to ethical exceptionalism, which poses a challenge to contemporary bioethics. It re-emphasizes a non-relativistic ethics by setting out a concept of ethics that systematically combines theoretical philosophical reflection with narrative material. The memorial at the former concentration camp of Ravensbrück, with its atrocities in the name of medicine, exemplifies the purpose and constructive meaning of moral learning from experiences of inhumanity. Thus it connects the individual moral account with global community ethics.