Abstract

FERRER-LUES, Marcela. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ETHICS AS TRANSNATIONAL CIVIC ETHICS?: ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBILITIES OF APPLYING THE ADELA CORTINA PROPOSAL. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp.42-55. ISSN 1657-4702.

In this work I aim to analyze whether the "transnational civic ethics", proposed by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina, constitutes a proposal susceptible to be applied for analyzing and developing an international research ethics. This is not about, therefore, an analysis of the philosophical fundaments of the proposal. It is about of analyzing the approach in the light of the research ethics development and, the main problems that continue being matter of discussion, conflict and disagreement. The article is divided in three sections. The first section describes the Adela Cortina approach on "transnational civic ethics". The second section analyzes such approach in the light of recent evidence on research ethics development and practice. Lastly, the third section resumes the main conclusions, emphasizing that the conditions under international research ethics develops are far away to allow the construction of a transnational civic ethics. The aspiration of rational deliberation is unaware of the influence of the social reality and its conflicts, hiding the social transactions or strategic negotiations, under the form of "agreements" or "consensus" that would be supported by timeless universal principles.

Keywords : International Research Ethics; Transnational civic ethics; Global ethics.

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