Fundamente filosofice ale consimțământului informat
Philosophical Foundations of Informed Consent

Summary/Abstract: Ethical deliberation has been an important component of human culture since the dawn of political and legal thought. Ethical theories analyze the moral acceptability of human actions from the perspective of a set of principles that, in turn, are derived from the process of implementing, in social practice, some human values considered fundamental at the level of a given society or culture. Ethical theories, similarly to scientific theories, shape the reality in which we live, and although they do not constitute the real world, but only a perspective on it, they allow us to understand and react to facts that occur in the real world. The article analyses, from the perspective of the philosophy of law, the concept of informed consent and its philosophical foundation originating in respect for the autonomy of the person. A series of perspectives on autonomy are presented, including the rational one, the relational one, the utilitarian one, and the expressive one, following the way in which they generated the concept of autonomy in bioethics.

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