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Gilberto A. Gamboa-Bernal

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• Research Article
  How to Progress from Opinion to Rationality: The Role of Philosophy as the Foundation of Bioethics
  Author(s): Gilberto A Gamboa-Bernal* Gilberto A Gamboa-Bernal*
  
  The different versions of bioethics are founded on very specific underlying philosophical and ethical elements. Every philosophical doctrine or current of thought is the source of a particular set of ethics and every set of ethics supports a distinct version of bioethics that is dependent on the wisdom or shortsightedness of both the philosophy and the ethics on which it is based. This paper is an attempt to explain how the relationship between philosophy, ethics and bioethics comes about and to identify the main consequences of the “kinship” determined by that affinity. A hypothetical situation is used to show the various solutions that are possible with five different triads that can be established, at present, as part of that relationship. The bioethical consequences of the “kinship” between philosophy, ethics and bioethics are illustrate.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2332-0915.1000193

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