SURVEY ON THE STATUS OF BIOETHICS' FOUR PRINCIPLES IN JURISPRUDENCE AND ISLAMIC LAW

Abstract

Four ethical principles with a shared application in bioethics are obtained from the convergence of thinkers in different social and global fields which are formed based on humanism originating from western culture. Although secular bioethics considers principles that can be extended worldwide and are related to all people and all ethical principles as a criterion to discuss ethical problems and present decision making models in the field of bioethics issues, it differs basically from various ethical schools of thought and cultures in terms of comparison and adaptation. These points of difference are more understandable in Abrahamian schools and religions specially Islam. This paper examines four bioethical principles in the Islamic law and jurisprudence and considering the clarity of its dimensions in the western cultures, the authors merely focus on the study of the subject from the point of view of the Islamic law and jurisprudence.