La dignidad humana como fundamento de una Bioética global

Abstract

In order to prevent globalization from being identified with the new unchristian world order, with a totalitarian character, it must be founded on human dignity. I quote Pope Francis: “we cannot ignore the nuclear power, the biotechnology, the informatics, the knowledge of our own DNA and other capabilities we have acquired which give us a tremendous power. Or better said, they give those who have the knowledge and above all the economical power to use it an astonishing dominance over the whole world and the human kind. Never before, have mankind had so much power over itself and nothing guarantees that such power will be used properly, especially when we see the way it is being used” (Ls, 104). It is imperative, then, to consider a kind of Ethics which proposes the living out of the virtues, especially justice, which has an anthropological foundation focused on the human dignity. Here, it is worthy to say that a person has no dignity just for being a person but on the contrary, a person is called a person for having dignity. In the development of this work, we will focus on the double natural and theological foundation of such dignity.