Sobre la reproducción de personas: la ética y la tecnología de la clonación

This article specially examines ethical problems settled by cloning human beings from the perspective of personalistic organicism -a philosophical position inspired by Alfred North Whitehead's work. Firstly, it sketches out the scene within which human cloning is a realizable technological possibility, and describes the reactions that it prompts. Secondly, it analyses different models under which to think of human clones. Particularly, it discusses metaphysical presuppositions that underlie both attribution as well as denial of personhood to human clones. Finally, it presents the philosophical perspective of personalistic organicism, and argues in favour of different reasons that we do have to treat human clones as complete person.Este artículo examina especialmente los problemas éticos que plantea la clonación de seres humanos desde la perspectiva del organicismo personalista -posición filosófica inspirada en la obra de Alfred North Whitehead. En primer lugar, bosqueja el escenario que hace de la tecnología de la donación humana una posibilidad tecnológicamente realizable y describe Ias reacciones que despierta. En segundo lugar, analiza diferentes modelos para pensar a los clones humanos. En particular, discute los presupuestos metafísicos que subyacen tanto a la atribución como a la negación del estatuto de persona humana a los clones humanos. Finalmente, presenta la perspectiva filosófica del organicismo personalista y argumenta por qué razones tenemos que tratar a los clones humanos como personas completas

Sobre la reproducción de personas: la ética y la tecnología de la clonación

This article specially examines ethical problems settled by cloning human beings from the perspective of personalistic organicism -a philosophical position inspired by Alfred North Whitehead's work. Firstly, it sketches out the scene within which human cloning is a realizable technological possibility, and describes the reactions that it prompts. Secondly, it analyses different models under which to think of human clones. Particularly, it discusses metaphysical presuppositions that underlie both attribution as well as denial of personhood to human clones. Finally, it presents the philosophical perspective of personalistic organicism, and argues in favour of different reasons that we do have to treat human clones as complete person.Este artículo examina especialmente los problemas éticos que plantea la clonación de seres humanos desde la perspectiva del organicismo personalista -posición filosófica inspirada en la obra de Alfred North Whitehead. En primer lugar, bosqueja el escenario que hace de la tecnología de la donación humana una posibilidad tecnológicamente realizable y describe Ias reacciones que despierta. En segundo lugar, analiza diferentes modelos para pensar a los clones humanos. En particular, discute los presupuestos metafísicos que subyacen tanto a la atribución como a la negación del estatuto de persona humana a los clones humanos. Finalmente, presenta la perspectiva filosófica del organicismo personalista y argumenta por qué razones tenemos que tratar a los clones humanos como personas completas

Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history - review

Book review of Holmes Rolston's Genes, Genesis and God. Lord Gifford, whose bequest founded the famous Gifford Lectures more than a century ago with a mandate to advance 'natural theology', would be proud of this book. It constitutes the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998; and, unlike many other recent Giffords, it really does fulfill the terms of the original bequest. This fulfillment is not expressed in the traditional language that Lord Gifford would have recognized (though underneath there are still classical arguments at work), but in this volume Holmes Rolston III brings together the best of current information about nature, especially the history of this planet, with the persistent depths of classical concerns about the character of the ultimate nature of things