The concepts of personal autonomy in the bioethical context, the identity of unborn life in reproductive medicine. Hermeneutical-phenomenological approach in bioethics
2016
Abstract
The article reflects current discourse concerning the identity of the unborn life in the context of modern bioethics in the mirror of the ideal prevailing in this debate - the ideal of personal autonomy. In the sore spots of the entire discourse then reveals the need for a new understanding of the idea of subjective identity which would be liberated from the capture of the paradigm of natural science.
My article tries to suggest one way of such new comprehension of identity which we can find in phenomenological-hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur whose concept of narrative identity I will present as the understanding of selfhood which brings new perspective to bioethical discourse dealing with personal identity and autonomy as well.