Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 39 No. 2, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/sp39202
Integrative Bioethics and Other Bioethics. On the Outline and Foundations of a Research Program
Thomas Sören Hoffmann
; FernUniversität in Hagen, Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Philosophie, Universitätsstraße 33, DE–58084 Hagen
Abstract
The paper presents integrative bioethics as a research program that is developed both in terms of its history to date and its systematic characteristics. Overall, integrative bioethics represents a reaction to defects in “mainstream bioethics”, which it seeks to remedy on a methodological as well as a substantive level. We show how integrative bioethics relates to certain other philosophical conceptions of “integrative thinking” and how it differs from other versions of bioethics: integrative bioethics replaces the model of “applied ethics” with a holistic approach to the respective questions; it seeks to be anchored in the real world of life; it does not recognize an abstract-normative discourse, but rather pursues a contextualization reflected in cultural philosophy; it asks about the presence of the decisive normative instances in its subject matter.
Keywords
integrative thinking; holistic approach; mainstream bioethics; self-normativity of the bioethical subject; pluriperspectivity; Southeast European school
Hrčak ID:
342331
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2024.
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