Laicality and secularity of bioethics: why i believe in a biologically founded ethics

Brunetto Chiarelli

Resumen


All living forms are worthy of respect and of bioethical consideration as they keep promoting the DNA of the species and the preservation of its intraspecific variability. However, the ethical consideration varies and has a different weight according to different biological complexity and its ontogenetic cycle. The socio-intellectual control on the environment in the natural system operated by Humanity can represent the quality leading to the fourth hierarchical level of ethical norms. The historically influenced bioethical behavior of humans can be related to morality which can assume different norms in different historical contexts. Morality could be therefore governed by religious or normalized by governments. Ethics is instead a pure biological and ecological discipline.

 

Key words: Morality, medical ethics, deontology, global bioethics.

 

 


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