title: Transformation of the subject in bioethics: From an autonomous person to cosmopolitan
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metadata.value: Solozhenkin, Boris S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-11-20T18:19:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-11-20T18:19:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Solozhenkin B. S. Transformation of the subject in bioethics: From an autonomous person to cosmopolitan. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 484–496.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20813
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The purpose of the article is to trace the development of the idea of subjectivity in bioethics, starting from the level assumed by the prevailing model of personal autonomy up
  to the cosmopolitan dimension innate to the global model proposed by Van Rensselaer
  Potter. In the article, autonomy is considered in the more general context of the individualization of Western societies. It is revealed that autonomy is inherently dependent on the
  idea of human well-being and the values of individualism and therefore it can be reduced
  to individual decisions. This devaluation of personal autonomy finds justifiable criticism
  among bioethicists. The concept of the subject is restored in the frame of the substantive
  model of autonomy indicating the inextricable connection of a choice and a common personal perspective. Such an individualistic approach to the subject is initially limited. Being
  concentrated on the behavior of a rational individual, the approach localizes all relevant
  ethical cases. In the modern world, global problem intersect with each other they cease to
  be noticed and moreover become intimatized due to their individualistic description. This
  approach to the subject is thus inadequate and needs to be replaced. For this purpose, the
  difference between the two traditions within bioethics must be overcome: an autonomous
  person and cosmopolitan remain the two significant models of subjectivity, and the bridge
  between them has never been built. The article explores the possibility of such a transition
  to a cosmopolitan position on the classic example from The Phenomenology of Spirit. It
  can be concluded that the current position of the theory of the subject is tenuous on both
  flanks of bioethics. When it loses the message of subjectivity and becomes a servant of the
  technological approach, we get just another version of medical ethics and lose the long-term
  perspective appropriate for the cosmopolitan world.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Research is supported by the grant of Russian Scientific Foundation no. 18-78-10018.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personal autonomy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cosmopolitan
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Potter
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjectivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: global bioethics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: individualization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Phenomenology of spirit
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: principles of biomedical ethics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Transformation of the subject in bioethics: From an autonomous person to cosmopolitan
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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