Abstract

CABRERA, Julio  and  SALAMANO, Mercedes Cecilia. HEIDEGGER ON BIOETHICS. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.2, pp.118-127. ISSN 1657-4702.

Within the present global crisis, we discuss some proposals of the philosopher Martin Heidegger concerning the human being that could sensibly modify the formulation of a good portion of bioethical questions. He introduces a new concept of human, not as a person or rational agent. According to Dasein modernity was built around three main ideas: the subject as a center, science as the sole criterion of truth and progress and the consequent technification of the world. There would have to liberate a place for another kind of creation that doesn't excludes the technical and neither stands out it to the point to make everything else disappear. Heidegger can be extremely useful on the issue of health-illness distinction and medicalization, in an attempt to obtain an existential notion of these concepts surpassing the traditional metaphysical view. Health is no longer a fact, but an existential project.

Keywords : Bioethics; tecnologized humanity; health/illness; medicalization.

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