Ethics and human rights - laying the foundations of bioethics

Abstract

The presence of the other in our lives, its implications, the dependence that this presence generates we do not feel when we think of humans as beings that are self-sufficient, as individual subjects that should take their own conclusions and solve their own conflicts of conscience by themselves. Ethics as a justification for the actions when in front of others and as a responsibility improvement: answer, its only a result from the human characteristic of being social. The greatest expression of this special human way of living is its language and a specific part of this language that is the reason. Modernity has been calling attention, since the XVth century, to the value of the reason and its need inside the interpersonal relations, especially in the ethics field. Ethics, that usually justifies, needs to be justified itself, what in the modern language we call foundation. The objective of the present study is to get a justification for bioethics or, using another words, to get a foundation for it, taking in account that bioethics is an ethical exercise. The search from the study was guided by the human rights.