Integrating Bioethics and Relational Autonomy as a Methodological Proposal
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https://doi.org/10.14422/rib.i31.y2026.007Keywords:
ethics, bioethics, autonomy, method, deliberation, cooperationAbstract
Bioethics is a hybrid discipline based primarily on creative, transdisciplinary dialogue with a gender perspective, between the sciences that affect human values and life in general. Its purpose is to seek, create, and offer solutions to problems arising from biotechnological advances and their intervention in the life of the planet. It requires at least two people to exchange perspectives and worldviews to create reasonable bioethical frameworks. Therefore, in this manuscript, we describe how Homo sapiens reached its current situation thanks to intelligent cooperation. We also discuss how human beings can live, coexist, and survive with other living beings that share the same common home, the Earth, and we design a method applicable to this bioethical dialogue based on relational autonomy (RA).
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