Review article
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.26.3.5
Dialogue Between Bioethics and Biopolitics: The Right to Life of Elderly People
Mislav Kutleša
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper seeks to establish a relationship between bioethics and biopolitics in the context of elderly people. Although aging itself is not a phenomenon, the attitude towards elderly people is highlighted as a phenomenon. Given that they often lose their psychophysical abilities and are faced with personal limitations, they inevitably face both the value system and the treatment of society. In this sense, biopolitics is manifested as the force and power whose instruments allow it to transform and shape a new culture, however, not by independent work, but relying on the help of bioethics, whose main concern is the attitude towards human dignity, life and health. Contrary to the culture of materialism and consumerism, bioethics has the task to reawaken in the modern society the meaning and value of human nature as the basis of ethics and healthy biopolitics in order to raise awareness of virtues as part of the nature of the human person. This aims to highlight the ethics of virtues as a new paradigm of biopolitics because it corresponds to that original and primordial human.
Keywords
old age; biopolitics; bioethics; dignity of the elderly; third age; virtue; altruism
Hrčak ID:
207310
URI
Publication date:
24.10.2018.
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