BIOETHICS AS A BRANCH OF APPLIED ETHICS

Abstract

The “natural” world in which we live at the moment is increasingly marked by human action and its acts, so that it is becoming much wider and more complex than earlier epochs of history. It also brings completely new and controversial moral and ethical issues. Because of this, there is a growing demand to pressure ethics as a science to offer answers to the open moral questions of the time. It is required to be more interdisciplinary in many areas of human activity. This is how the need for applied ethics was born, especially for bioethics, as a moral thinking and evaluation of life and everything that relates to and refers to life. It is an interdisciplinary field of research and expertise on human responsibility in protecting life, all forms of life and health. But more than that! “The birth of bioethics” requires and seeks “the seriousness of people in front of the great questions of our natural foundations”. Bioethics is put at the service of “directing people to create and lead clean and good lives, and to encourage them to engage in the improvement of the vital foundations of human existence.”The article elaborates its subject, task and goals, and thus tries to justify its great importance in this age of scientific indolence, i.e. why bioethics became the basis for the universalization of contemporary ethics, as its aspiration towards comprehensiveness, towards what is unique and valuable for the entire human race.