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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   THE PERSON, A MEANINGFUL NOTION IN BIOETHICS. A PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL APPROACH.

Authors:  ADRIAN MĂGDICI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The contemporary notion of person, devoid of ontological basis and built on the fragile characteristic of rationality, is not useful in defending defenceless human beings. Instead, it rather tends to become a subtle eugenic -tool. In other words, the less we are interested in the metaphysical aspect of human life, the more fluid becomes the boundary between bioethics and what we may call thanato-ethics, while the concept of person gets flimsier than ever. The goal of the following reflections is therefore to try to rediscover the original context which allowed full expression of the notion of person and, consequently, to rediscover the meta-physical sense of the human person, which is imperative for a healthy anthropology and a genuine bioethics.

Keywords: person, bioethics, worldview, materialism, hylomorphism, meta-physics, theology, God 		 
         
     
         
         
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