Bioética y antropología Juan Masiá Clavel, S.J.

Abstract

This book approaches bioethics from an anthropological emphasis. In this way, the author presents the main topics of bioethics in relation to biocultural aspects. Hence, the author clarifies and addresses from the beginning the biocultural perspective, which permeates the entire work. Once the perspective is clear, we proceed with the themes of hominization, life or birth and death. With these three aspects, the broadening of the margin of understanding and approach is highlighted, so that it seeks holism and tends to consider each case according to its own circumstances, emphasizing the responsibility for new possibilities in these aspects. After that, in an attitude of dialogue and rescue, he addresses Eastern anthropologies and their eco-ethical vision. To, treat in last aspect, the place of theology and contemporary debates. Therefore, it is a proposal for a dialogical opening in search of guidelines for morality as a construction that is always in process. In this sense, he considers theology as one more discipline that must enter into reflective dialogue about the preceding problems. Likewise, the author rescues the sense of the cosmic and the oriental contributions as part of the anthropological element that challenges the Western vision.