BIOETHICS AS APPLIED PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Theoretical bioethics can exist as applied philosophy only when its axiological and deontological components are correlated hierarchically. The priority of axiological judgments over deontological ones allows it to carry out the methodological and world outlook role, the priority of deontological components eliminates the philosophical content and, finally, transforms bioethics into a subsystem of the natural law, at best, and in the worst case - in one of interpretative positive law models.