Abstract

BLAS-LAHITTE, Héctor  and  SANCHEZ-VAZQUEZ, María José. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOETHICS AND HUMAN COHABITATION FROM A RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. pers.bioét. [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp.40-51. ISSN 0123-3122.

This article shows the need to establish a correlation between man and the natural and cultural environment as a unit for survival. Ecoethics main contributions to bioethics are developed from a relational perspective. Taking into account the disastrous repercussions on life stemming from techno-industrial development, two extreme positions in environmental ethics are analyzed: anthropocentrism and physiocentrism. Both these positions preserve the traditional dissociation between nature and culture as a base condition. A necessary epistemic change in ecological attitude is proposed, based on a cognitive reorganization to allow for the creation of quality contexts among men as part of the geoculture in which they live.

Keywords : ethics; bioethics; environment; nature; culture; epistemology.

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