Abstract
This article analyzes the book "Bioethics: Bridge to the Future" by Potter VR as a personal message, a manifesto of an intellectual, a display of spiritual search against the backdrop of a crisis of ideologies, then looks into the factors that shaped the bioethical concept and establishes the significance this work and the bioethical concept have in the 21st century.
Highlights
In 2021, “Bioethics: Bridge to the Future”, a book by Potter VR, turns 50 [1]
There are two factors that are rightfully viewed as historical conditions in which the bioethical concept was formed: 1) As a conceptual system, bioethics emerged when the crisis of axiological guidelines, which happened in middle of the 20th century, was gradually subdued, and there was a need for the most critical rethinking of the obvious and dramatic devaluation of what the European community held as its values
The overall socio-economic function of the “creative class” generally seconds the tasks Potter VR saw before the community of intellectuals described in his book
Summary
In 2021, “Bioethics: Bridge to the Future”, a book by Potter VR, turns 50 [1]. Despite the fact that the author himself stated the materials from the book were first published in 1962 (p. 7) [1], and regardless of the debate around the precedence of use of “bioethics”, a key concept, the book of 1971 is undoubtedly one of the keynote works that establishes the idea and conceptual meaning of bioethical categories. In 2021, “Bioethics: Bridge to the Future”, a book by Potter VR, turns 50 [1].
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