ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

zajedničko svim moralnim subjektima i što se tradicionalno nalazi bilo u
razumu (Kant) ili u sposobnosti osjećanja bola (Bentham) ili čak u životu
kao takvom (Schweitzer). No, pretpostavka toga je da su svi subjekti
identični. Naprimjer, Naessova ideja »dubinske ekologije« temelji se na
procesu samo-identifikacije. Međutim, takva identifikacija može dovesti
do nametanja nečijeg sebstva drugome, čime se »ljudska dimenzija ovdje
izjednačava s najklasičnijim antropocentrizmom« (R. Braidotti, Transpositions).
U ovom se izlaganju, na tragu L. Irigaray, sugerira da bi okolišna
etika – i etika općenito – trebala biti razvijana na različite načine, poštujući
razliku.
IVANA ZAGORAC
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia /
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
BIOETHICAL WORLDVIEW IN THE
EUROPEAN TRADITION
“Bioethical anxiety” had been present long before the widely known
events that identified medicine as the field in which bioethics was “birthed”,
locating it geographically in the United States of America. The publication
of Shana Alexander’s text is, indeed, a “birthing”, although not of bioethics,
but of a new medical ethics. Bioethics goes beyond the framework of
medicine, and is focused on the question of life as such – both human and
non-human – and the conditions of its preservation, with both the present
and the future as its timeframes. The principles, norms and codices, such
as the ones that were established on and due to medical controversies, are
therefore only one, but most certainly not the only, product of bioethical efforts.
An integrative gathering of the perspectives and their interaction are
orientated towards a more complex task – redefining the worldview.
The working hypothesis here is that valuable guidelines in formulating
bioethically grounded worldview could be found in the rich European tradition
of thought. This paper will thus try to point out the valuable resources
(namely Francis of Assisi, Fritz Jahr, Albert Schweitzer) for the historical
reconstruction of the bioethical worldview. As those resources will show,
such an alternative concept of bioethics goes far beyond principlism and
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