Framing Neuroethical Praxis: Wojtyła’s Metaphysical Subject and its Modernist Cartesian Variants

• Authors: Denis Larrivee , Luis Echarte
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Numerous neuroethical quandaries today mark concerns over the normative propriety of corporal intervention in the nervous system. At the center of the debates is the question of how the human subject is understood. Accounts influenced by Cartesian metaphysics separate the subject into his immaterial and material manifestations, yielding ethical approaches that devalue the body and neural architecture. Contemporary neuroscience, on the one hand, proposes that the subject is purely a physiological creation, whereas posthumanism privileges the isolated ego on the other; both, thereby, validate an arbitrary neuroethical praxis. By anchoring neuroethics in the metaphysical subject Wojtyła proposes a fundamental corrective to these metaethical approaches, and the promise of a new praxis for corporal intervention in the brain.

Keywords

PL

Metaphysical subject; neuroethics; bioethics; humanum suppositum; posthumanism; Wojtyła; Heidegger; extended mind theory; integration; theology of the body

EN

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Journal: Logos i Ethos
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2018

online

2018-10-15

Contributors

author

Denis Larrivee

author

Luis Echarte

Identifiers

DOI

10.15633/lie.2555