Studies in the Philosophy of Law, p.4. Legal Philosophy and the Challenges of Biosciences

Marta Soniewicka, Wojciech Załuski, Jerzy Stelmach

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. Studies in the Philosophy of Law, p.4. Legal Philosophy and the Challenges of Biosciences. Red. Soniewicka, Marta; Załuski, Wojciech; Stelmach, Jerzy . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2010, 162 s. ISBN 978-83-233-2918-3

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prawo, bioetyka, filozofia prawa, law, philosophy of law, bioethics, biosciences, bioethical debate

The present book is the fourth volume of the series Studies in the Philosophy of Law which has appeared since 2001. The previous two volumes had a monographic character, the last one being devoted to the topic of the economic analysis of law and p...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-233-2918-3

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2010

Liczba stron:

162

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Preface3
Jerzy Stelmach, Six Causes of the Dispute over Legal Bioethics4
Carla Faralli, Bioethics and Legal Philosophy14
Roman Tokarczyk, The Outline of the Subject of Biojurisprudence22
Maciej Dybowski, Law and Biotechnology50
Andrzej Elżanowski, The Ethical Signifi cance of Evolution59
Wojciech Załuski, Human Nature after Darwin71
Bartosz Brożek, The Notion of the Person in Bioethical Debates78
Tomasz Pietrzykowski, The Roots of Normativity. From Neuroscience to Legal Theory89
Burton M. Leiser, Why No One Should Ever Win the Nobel Prize: Neurolaw, Reward and Punishment114
Marta Soniewicka, Is There Anybody Who Really Wants to Live Forever? The Signifi cance of Mortality123
Michał Araszkiewicz, The Slippery Slope Arguments Against the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide138
Agnieszka Giza, Wojciech Załuski, Ethical Problems of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Transplantation153
Notes about the Authors161

JerzyStelmach

Suchgeneraldoubtsmaybeexpressedwiththehelpofarangeofdetailedques-

tions,ofwhichIwouldliketodiscusssix.Theﬁrstconcernswhatisbioethics

andthesecondfocusesonwhatkindofrelationsmayexistbetweenscientiﬁc

truthsandethicalargumentsinbioethicaldiscourse.Thethirdcentresonthe

existenceofanadequatetheoryofbioethics,thefourthontheaxiologicalclosed

oropennatureofbioethicaldiscourse,theﬁfthontheparadoxofbioethicsand,

ﬁnally,thesixthdealswiththelimitsoflegalregulationofbioethicalproblems.

Anattempttoanswerthesequestionsshowsthatbioethicaldiscoursebecomes

morecoherentandtransparent.Ifweavoidsuchanattemptthenweabandon

anychanceofunderstandingfundamentalmatters.Anunavoidableconsequence

ofsuchanavoidancewouldbetoshapebioethicaldiscourseasaseriesofunre-

latedmonologues(whichwehavebeenabletoobserveforquitesometimeinthe

bioethicaldebateinPoland).

Thuswhatdowenotknowaboutlegalbioethics?

1.Dowenotknowwhatbioethicsis?

Thedebateastowhatbioethicsactuallyconsistsofhasadeeperdimension

notonlylimitedtodeﬁnitions.Forsome,bioethicsissomekindof"neworder,”

ahighlyspecialisedﬁeldofscientiﬁcandethicalreﬂectionwhichhasarisento

meettheconcreteneedsofcivilizationasaresultoftheremarkableprogressof

scienceandtechnology,especially,insuchﬁeldsofknowledgeasbiology,me-

dicineandpharmacology(but,obviously,notonlythese).Forothers,however,

bioethicsisjusta"newword”and,intheeyesofitsadherents,thispositionstates

thateverythinghasalreadybeendiscussed.Thisconvictionhassomeappealing

andstrongarguments.Issuessuchasmankind,hisnature,freewill,selfrespect,

responsibility,aswellasmanyotherdetailedproblemssuchaseuthanasiaorthe

deathpenalty,havebeendiscussedinphilosophyinourculturalcontextsince

foreverand,furthermore,thosewhohavewrittenonthesesubjectshavebeen

the"greats.”Whatexiststhenincontemporarybioethicsorlegalbioethicswhich

isnew?Onlycertainaspectsofgeneticresearchhavebeendiscussed,suchasthe

abilitytocloneandinvitrofertilisation.Isthisenoughtofoundanentirelynew

academicdiscipline?

Whetherornotwehaveatleasttwooptions.Eitherweoptforthenarrowerno-

tionofbioethics,connectedwithacertaintypeofreﬂectionconcerningconcrete

examplesof"appliedbioethics”orweplumpforthebroaderconception,supported

byaphilosophicalandethicalbasis.Eachoftheseapproacheshasitsprosand

cons.

Inthecaseoftheﬁrst,wegaintheabilitytoanswerconcretequestionswhich

ariseineitherbioethicsormedicine.Weareabletoconstructacertainappli-

cable"summarytheory”connectedwithadeﬁnedﬁeldofresearch,thelimitsof

knowledgeonagivensubjectandconcrete"difﬁcultcases.”Repeatedlyappeal-

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