In memoriam: Dr Andrés Peralta Corneille

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Biological and Evolutionist Foundations of Ethics

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Editorial

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Laicality and secularity of Bioethics: why I believe in a biologically founded ethics

All living forms are worth of respect and of bioethical consideration as the keep promoting the DNA of the species and the preservation of its intraspecific variability. However, the ethical consideration varies and has a different weight according to different biological complexity and its ontogenetic cycle.A first hierarchical level of value must be attributed to the specific DNA of a biological entity characterised by a haploid order of genes such as those of a bacterium, a gamete, a spore or an haplophte.The second hierarchical level leading to complexity in the history of life are the diploid entityies, characterised by a diploid order of genes. The differ from the haploid because the fusion of the two haploid DNA filaments presupposes meiosis, which functions as a selective filter of casual mutations, the majority of which lead to the extinction of the haploid entity.The third ethical level of complexit concern those animal species in which the concept of individual is present; individual being defi..

The bioecological bases of global bioethics

Adaptive success and evolution are determined by how we interact with the natural environment and all other forms of life (bios). Yet in our pursuit to dominate the natural world, we have lost sight of this basic premise and continue to exploit natural resources, to contaminate, to consume more than necessary and to misuse our reproductive capacities. For this reason, global bioethics emerged in the 1980s, a culmination of mental resistance on the part of many observers who sought to readdress the balance between humankind and nature – a balance which must be reinstated if we are to survive. Corrective measures are required, which should be free from purely religious or political influences because their ideologies are frequently founded on strategies of power, with little regard for the general well-being of all living species. Global bioethics, as opposed to bioethics, was formulated by myself, Van Rensselaer Potter, Antonio Moroni, Laura Westra and others, to transcend the restraints of science, unitin..

The Biological and Evolutionist Bases of Ethic

A rational and naturalistic definition of ethical norms must stipulate the preservation of the DNA typical of the species and the maintenance of its intra specific variability. Indeed, this aim of preserving the DNA of the species and preserving its intra specific variability is the basic principle of bioethics. The historically limited behaviour can be related to morality which can assume different norms in different hostorical contexts. Morality could therefore be governed by religion or normalized by discipline. Ethics, instead of that, would be a purely biological and ecological discipline

Man, Nature and Ethics: Global Bioethics

The survival of human society and the species Homo sapiens and the best outcome of the relationship between man and his environment is the essential aim of bioethics. The conservation of the DNA characteristics of a species and the preservation of its intraspecific variability are also objectives of bioethics

Consumerism: a general introduction

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History of human impact an the natural environment

At the threshold of the Twenty-First Century, Humankind is facing a new Era. After 6 million years of genomic independent existence and after 2 million years of increased capacity in learning and t..