Reflexionen zum Zusammenhang Zwischen Anthropologischen Prämissen und Bioethischen Positionen
Reflexions on the Connection of Anthropological Premises and Bioethical Positions

Summary/Abstract: In bioethical debate of this moment, it is dominant the one-sided definition of a person through the self-consciousness and rationality and the autonomy which relies on them. The body is considered only as the subject of empirical sciences and due to its biological functions solely it has significance for the science. But in what proportion is that understanding of the body, and hence the body-mind relation, adequate? And is it true that identity can be grounded only on self-affirmation, without the relations toward other persons? In the moment at which the individual is no more comprehended as quasi-atomized individual, but dimension of intesubjectivity is being included, thus the definition of the body must also expand. Communication is based on corporeal expression of intentions, emotions and affections, shortly: on sensuous expressions of subjectivity. Physiologically properly functioning body is always the body that is at the same time expressed and perceived by others in its own expressivity. Ethics that wishes to protect the integrity of human life must comprehend the unity of body and mind, as well as interpersonal relations. On the basis of the understanding of autonomy, the evaluation of border situations becomes also modified.

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