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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp37203

A Contribution to the Bioethicisation of Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education

Josip Guć orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9330-5027 ; University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poljička cesta 35, HR–21000 Split


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Abstract

The paper attempts to point out Paulo Freire’s thoughts that could be fruitful in the context of bioethical consideration of the human relationship toward nature, i.e., non-human living beings, especially with regard to the development of bioethical sensibility, in particular present in children. Given that certain childhood traits, compatible with the idea of bioethical sensibility, form the core of Freire’s philosophy of education, this is an area in which the bioethicisation of Freire’s thought can be particularly fruitful. In addition, the paper presents his views associated with moral regard toward non-human living beings, as well as those that are somewhat contradictory to due regard toward living beings, given that the latter views provide impoverished insights into the richness of the non-human living beings’ self-realisation. Prior to these considerations, the notion of bioethicisation of philosophy is further clarified, especially regarding the closely related (programmatic) notion of Europeanisation of bioethics. Both of these terms are used in the context of integrative bioethics. The last chapter explains the potential contribution of Freire’s dialogical method to the development of a pluri-perspective methodology of integrative bioethics.

Keywords

Paulo Freire; bioethicisation of philosophy; philosophy of education; oppression; humanisation; non-human living beings; childhood; integrative bioethics; pluri-perspectivism

Hrčak ID:

303699

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/303699

Publication date:

29.12.2022.

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