title: [Bioethics in the contemporary secular environment].
abstract: The aim of this study is to determine the preventive function of bioethics as an independent scientific discipline in terms of predicting the future of mankind, figuring the patterns of potential bioethical problems and other global challenges and dilemmas.  Wide diversity of axiological issues, mental representations and principles of world vision, as well as various spiritual, ontological and existential concepts of solution of them, are described as the causes of different approaches to the problem of the future of mankind. In the article, along with theoretical questions, the negative spiritual and moral values, which influence the emergence of global problems of humankind (including the field of Biomedicine), are presented. The reasons of their formation and implementation are depicted, and the ways of their prevention are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Georgian Patriarchate St. King Tamar Educational University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Akhaladze
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D001675:Bioethics / Q000639:trends*; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000941:ethics; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D035621:Secularism; D013405:Suicide / Q000941:ethics; D019737:Transplants