Practical aspects of bioethics: some European and American views
Abstract
The major (speculative) thesis of this essay is that, while in Europe, the idealist concepts
have always co-existed with various concepts of (and trends toward) “practicality,“ in the
United States of America the pragmatist view has by far been prevailing, reflecting also upon
the history of bioethics. In the light of this proposal, the (mis)perception of Van Rensselaer
Potter’s ideas is interpreted, as well as the roots of the current dichotomy between the
mainstream bioethics, generated at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Georgetown, and
the “Europeanised” direction of bioethics, primarily but not exclusively influenced by the
discovery of Fritz Jahr’s work and the emergence of the integrative bioethics in South-Eastern
Europe in the last fifteen years
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