Emmanuel Levinas: Implications of the relational paradigm for bioethics
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https://doi.org/10.14422/rib.i06.y2018.008Keywords:
The Other, care, responsibility, relationalityAbstract
In a changing world that offers new health-care situations, the inadequacy of traditional models of bioethics are demonstrated. A new ethic needs to be based more on a relational paradigm; where inter-subjectivity, encounters with ‘the Other’ particularly with his/her face as a unique person, and where responsibility is at the center, as outlined by Emmanuel Levinas, the French-Lithuanian philosopher. His philosophy helps bioethics in its search for foundations.
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