Published: 2018-09-251

Do We Need New Ethics? Discussion in the Light of the Dichotomy: Natural - Artificial

Anna Latawiec

Abstract

The paper constitutes an attempt to answer the question if there should appear some new ethic discipline, ‘entitled’ to verify different kinds of experiments that result from rapid development of science and technology, as well as increasing interference of man in nature. The discussion was carried out taking into consideration Hoffmann’s proposal of concept classification into the categories of natural and artificial.

The paper also emphasizes certain problems connected with the possibility of employing a new method of procreation, a new method of Parkinson disease treatment, a new definition of death, a new method of interference in the world of living organisms in the field of genetic engineering. As a result of applying the above-mentioned novelties, there appear ‘objects’ that deserve to be called artificial, namely: life created artificially, artificial consciousness and personality, the confines of human life established in an artificial way, genome determined artificially.

The questions described above remain open and await solving. Although the paper does not provide any ultimate answers to them, it includes a suggestion that medical bioethics is the branch of science which could serve as a basis for settling the problems discussed.

Keywords:

bioethics, medical bioethics, death, eugenics, euthanasia, genetic engineering, cloning, natural, artificial, artificial fertilization, brain tissue transplantation

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Latawiec, A. (2018). Do We Need New Ethics? Discussion in the Light of the Dichotomy: Natural - Artificial. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (3), 59–70. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/1025

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