title: [Man's place and anthropology in bioethics].
abstract: From the analysis of its epistemological status, the article focuses on the philosophical fundament of bioethics, stressing the need for an authentic anthropology as a reference or starting point. Being an applied ethics, the first fundament of bioethics is in ethics. It shows how only personalistic ethics, which takes as reference the nature or essence of man, can offer objective and universal criteria. Philosophical anthropology studies man as a whole, in an integral manner, from the perspective of its nature or fundamental aspects of his being. It analyzes the distinction and relationship between the philosophical anthropology and the positive anthropologies, as well as with the physical, human and social sciences. Finally, it reflects on the current anthropological crisis and its ethical consequences.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Paseo de Artilleros s/n. 28032 Madrid. Tel: 914887811. francisca.tomar@urjc.es.
authors.forename: Francisca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tomar Romero
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology; D001675:Bioethics; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge