Review article

BIOETHICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Nikola Skledar ; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb

Abstract

Since bioethics, as the name itself indicates, is a special kind of ethics (contained in the concept of bioethics as a new, transdisciplinary science), in the beginning, the basic thing about ethics as a discipline of practical philosophy is said, to make, therefore, more comprehensible the sense, task and possibilities of bioethics as applied ethics in the field of life in general, first of all, in human's life and health.
And since ethics as a reflection on right and good human activity is essentially connected with anthropology as philosophical and scientific reflexion on nature, on the position in the world and on the essence of human being in general (natural, social and spiritual) , thus, in the second part of this conspectus, the "umbilical" connection between bioethics and anthropology has been shown, with the special regard to contemporary ecological conditions of life, i.e. to the threatening global and ecological crisis.

Keywords

anthropology; bioethics; practical philosophy

Hrčak ID:

141546

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141546

Publication date:

15.9.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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