Bioetické reflexie pohrôm a katastrof – nové výzvy pre súčasnú etiku

• Authors: Katarína Komenská

Title variants

EN

Bioethical Reflection of Disasters and Catastrophes – New Challenges for Contemporary Ethics

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author tries to introduce a new field of ethical reflections, the field of disaster ethics, while specially concerned with the questions of bioethics. To this end, the author distinguishes two main goals of the paper. Firstly, a definition of disaster is presented to readers, drawing attention to the specific features of such events and their differences from the day-to-day situations. The distinctive characteristic of disaster bioethics is stated, which leads to a formulation of the need to ethically evaluate actions resulting from a disaster (and pre- and post-disaster) from a different perspective. The second goal is to analyse potential problems which arise from applying traditional ethical frameworks to this context. As a solution, the author presents a hybrid ethical theory, the ethics of social consequences, as a form of non-utilitarian consequential theory

Keywords

EN

disaster; bioethical reflection of disasters and catastrophes; triage; humanitarian aid

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 773-782
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Katarína  Komenská

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic