Biutechnulujik-í dar áyëinh falsåfeh akhlåh = Biotechnology in the mirror of ethics

Biutechnulujik-í dar áyëinh falsåfeh akhlåh = Biotechnology in the mirror of ethics

Seyed Fatemi, Seyed Mohammed

20020000

Persian

20020000

Bioethics seems to be the most important branch of applied ethics. It concerns both philosophers and scientists. Such crucial questions as health care, ART, genetic engineering, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, transplantation, population issues, animal rights and the like are just examples of questions are being dealt with in this discipline. Due to special nature of these questions, to offer a sufficient moral theory, in addition to seven criteria of applicability i.e., clarity, completeness, comprehensiveness, practicability as well as justificatory, output and explanatory powers, an internal urging power is needed. That may be achieved by divine persuasion to follow rational moral principles which are comprehensible by human faculty. Accordingly, in the level of content moral principles are rational norms, but in the level of implementation divine command is an urging motivation to persuade human agents to act morally. We would have a non-divine command moral theory which gives considerable role to religious beliefs. In this article in addition to dealing with main moral theories, Kantian, utilitarianism, virtue ethics and religious approach to biotechnological issues and their implications in this field, l have offered certain moral principles which can be applied as guiding principles biotechnological questions.

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abortion;animal rights;artificial insemination;euthanasia;genetics;suicide;transplantation

Iran

Journal of Reproduction and Infertility 2002; 4(3) no. 12: 72-55 Accessed: http://iranmedex.com/english/articles_detail.asp [2010 June 28]

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