Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 39 No. 2, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/sp39206
Insight and Prospect. Integrative Bioethics and Ethical Concretism
Walter Schweidler
; Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstr. 28a, DE–85072 Eichstätt
Abstract
“Integrative bioethics” has become a successful model of ethical discourse that is saturated by experience and aware of its responsibility, which makes it worthy of being carried and passed on beyond its current borders. To this end, a perspective that goes beyond Southeast Europe and even beyond the Western cultural sphere will be useful, taking into account the ethical discourse in non-European, and above all Asian, cultures. The method of pluriperspectivism and the principle of defending human dignity as interdisciplinary guidelines for the discourse on decisionmaking issues at the beginning and end of life and in the borderline stages of human life that transcend professional fields of action remain central to this. The specific bioethical discourse should be supplemented by the inclusion of questions arising from the current global problem of radical social transformations. In this respect, too, “integrative bioethics” remains undeniably topical as a guideline for the concretization of abstract principles on their breeding ground in the lived forms of social fields of responsibility.
Keywords
pluriperspectivism; culture of norms and culture of utility; concretism; gift; transformation societies
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Publication date:
29.12.2024.
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