Globalization of bioethics as an intercultural social tuning technology.
Now, in the beginning of the 21st century, bioethics must be urgently globalized into a Global Bioethics which combines the ongoing Bioethics based on the modern European humanism with the newly arising Environmental Ethics based on the rather communitarian (or Asian) ways of thinking. This does not always mean that the new global bioethics is necessarily universalistic, for we should stand on the recognition of the wide spread variety of value systems in the world, north and south, east and west. However, it is not particularistic either, for in order to establish a post-modern global ethics, we have to accept and harmonize every kind of antagonistic values on the Globe. For this purpose we have to cultivate a new social technology of tuning social disorder of not only international but also inter-ethnic and inter-cultural level of ideology beyond the modern European humanism. Here the concept of "human rights" or the concept of "human dignity" may lose its significance as it has held in the past bioethical thinking in the western world.
Sakamoto
Hyakudai
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Aoyama-gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
D001208:Asia; D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006806:Human Rights; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D019366:Western World