An Attempt to Give Existential Foundation to Bioethics

The detachment of man and nature, the strict positioning of the object postulated by the subject is the scientific paradigm of modernity with Cartesian roots, which organically determines the boundaries and frameworks of our everyday thinking. The Heideggerian and Jonasian existential line of thinking, postulating that the Being-Here is originally determined by the environment and drawn into the world, offers a real alternative to the former. The concept of life, though it cannot be defined in the strict sense of the word, can be satisfactorily described on the basis of modern natural sciences, and, relying on the testimony of prominent bioethicists, an existentialist bioethics, laying the foundations for the respect of life, can be built around it, showing a new relationship between environment and man, as well as a practical attitude more compatible with the moral challenges of the age.

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