Bioethical Philosophical Dialogue under the Hegemony of Scientific Progress

Abstract

Bioethics is considered one of the new fields of knowledge concerning ethical issues arising from the outcomes of biological and medical research involving human beings. It does so by establishing a set of moral values intended to guide the work and research of physicians and scientists and by determining their ethical parameters to preserve human life and dignity. This has led philosophers to direct their attention toward bioethics, regarding it as a fundamental point of reference for discussing and raising their questions through the diagnosis of lived reality and its treatment from a critical perspective. Such a perspective seeks to establish a new space for philosophising, aiming to understand, interpret, and analyse the reality of human life. This, in turn, has given rise to a bioethical philosophical dialogue that examines the transgressions imposed by scientific progress and seeks to establish new ethics specific to the sciences. These ethics contribute to the continuation of philosophical discourse concerning the legitimacy of science and represent the future of philosophical inquiry in the ethical domain.