Home – Home – Jornals – Philosophy of Sciences 2018 number 4

The article analyzes philosophical foundations of bioethics. The authors set a complex goal: to consider an empirical basis of medicine, on the one hand, and to formulate the most important and informative generalizations of the notion of “bioethics” arising from the context of ethical concepts which often conflict with medical practice, on the other hand. Bioethics is not considered as a precept for resolving certain medical dilemmas from the perspective of human morality, but is presented as a kind of speculative model with an inherent number of general properties. The introduction of such transcendental properties helps the authors to examine ultimate limits of the real object of study, i.e. bioethics, which enables to reveal its essential basis. In this case, bioethics not only represents a subjective view in medicine, but also indicates something that is over the organic essence of the human being. That is why it is important to reveal its metaphysical principles. The authors show that bioethics in the broad sense is evidence of difficulty in resolving the moral dilemmas that arise in medicine.