INTEGRATIVE BIOETHICS AND PROBLEM OF TRUTH

Abstract

The integrative bioethics is methodologically determined by the idea of pluri-perspectivism.According to this idea, the “orientational knowledge” can be attained only throughthe interaction of different cognitive perspectives within the certain subject fi eld. This methodologicalstandpoint, in its philosophical background, presupposes strictly determined understandingof truth, which can accordingly be called (pluri)perspectivistic. The aim of this article is toexplicate the presupposed notion of truth in order to philosophically legitimize pluri-perspectivisticcognitive methods and to ground the new paradigm of knowledge. This paper consistsof three sections: the defi nition of the integrative bioethics is given in the fi rst section; then theauthor gives systematic review of various philosophical approaches to the concept of truth; and,fi nally in the third part, the string of the pluri-perspectivistic understanding of truth within thehistory of philosophy is being reconstructed.