Original scientific paper
TRADE WITH LIFE AND BROADENNING THE BIOETHICAL SUBJECT MATTER
Ivan Cifrić
; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb
Abstract
The author starts from the thesis that the discussion on the new bioethical paradigm must include not only the human life but also life as such, and expand human moral responsibility for life in general.
The emerging of new environment (oikos) moves the creation of new forms of bios. From domestification man arrived to the genetic manipulation. Consequences of decisions in connection with bios and oikos nowadays have come out of control of science and society. The bios became at the same time most endangered and most wanted merchandise at the international “market of life”.
Modern society reduced life to human life by “environmental disregard”, and its value to human value, so the bioethics focused only on it. Bioethical discourse is a chance to understand life in its primeval meaning: the form of a particular type of life.
The shaping of artificial environment and a new man is a feature of human evolution, and the rate of this shaping is the feature of human culture. So becomes a new “social–natural state”. The foundation of future society could not be only the technical progres. The basis of the acknowledgment of bio rights as universal rights of the living are human rights. For this reason, the author pleads for the inclusion of isues that result from the new reality: bioeconomics, bioindustry, biotechnology and biopolitics into bioethical discourse.
Keywords
bioethics; bioethical paradigm; biotechnology; bioindustry; bioeconomics; biopiracy; gene–technology; human rights; rights of the living (bio rights); paradigm of life; trade with life
Hrčak ID:
141642
URI
Publication date:
15.5.1998.
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