Bioethics as Biopower: a view from an Eschatological perspective

Stojanov, Trajce (2018) Bioethics as Biopower: a view from an Eschatological perspective. In: Fourth International Philosophical Dialogue "East-West" Bioethics on Crossroads, 10.03.2018, Skopje. (In Press)

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Abstract

Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy.
Obviously the bioethics is primarily concerned with the body. Bioethics ignores the eternal, i.e. eschatological perspective, ergo - mans divine potentiality. But, can bodies be perceived outside this eschatological perspective? We think that bodies cannot be treated solely from the perspective of immanency. Only thinking from the perspective of transcendence we can understand that each new medical method and every advance of biology is blessed, just because it regards the whole man, who lives in the present age, but is journeying towards the age to come. Conversely, every discovery in the field of biotechnology that encloses man within the limits of his biological life, however much it makes earthly life easier, conceals something tragic, and even dangerous. Dangerous in a sense that thus bioethics turns over into a biopower that has only one goal: to execute the power over the bodies. Thus, ironically bioethics - staying in the plan of the immanence - becomes just one of the means of the biopolitics. Ethics, i.e. bioethics that does not contains the question of meaning easily can be turned into indoctrination and even one of many biopolitical tools, strategies and mechanisms through which human life processes are managed under regimes of authority.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Humanities > Philosophy, ethics and religion
Divisions:	Faculty of Educational Science
Depositing User:	Trajce Stojanov
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2023 11:48
Last Modified:	03 Apr 2023 11:48
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31596

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