What’s Missing in Secular Bioethics? The False Dichotomy between “the Secular” and “the Theological”

[EN] Considered from a normative perspective, secular bioethics does not require anything from a theological discourse. And likewise, it does not require anything from an atheist discourse either. It depends rather on a debate whose pluralism has to be grounded in secular conditions. Therefore, it c...

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Autor: Roldan Gómez, Isabel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/154568
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/154568
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Religión
Secular
Christianity
5101.10 Religión
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Sumario:[EN] Considered from a normative perspective, secular bioethics does not require anything from a theological discourse. And likewise, it does not require anything from an atheist discourse either. It depends rather on a debate whose pluralism has to be grounded in secular conditions. Therefore, it cannot be expected that a substantive approach should be the ground of the public bioethical discourse. A different question would be the proper place of religion (religions with political valence as Christianity) at legally tackling bioethical issues which touch upon sensitive religious topics. But this is a political matter, not a theoretical gap.