A Personalist Ontological Approach to Synthetic Biology
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2018
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"Although synthetic biology is a promising discipline, it also raises serious
ethical questions that must be addressed in order to prevent unwanted
consequences and to ensure that its progress leads toward the good of
all. Questions arise about the role of this discipline in a possible redefinition
of the concept of life and its creation. With regard to the products of
synthetic biology, the moral status that they should be given as well as
the ethically correct way to behave towards them are not clear. Moreover,
risks that could result from a misuse of this technology or from an accidental
release of synthetic organisms into the environment cannot be
ignored; concerns about biosecurity and biosafety appear. Here we discuss
these and other questions from a personalist ontological framework,
which defends human life as an essential value and proposes a set of
principles to ensure the safeguarding of this and other values that are
based on it."
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Bioética, Artes y Humanidades