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Vol. 63 No. 4 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.48
Hacia una retórica propositiva para la bioètica
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Rhetoric is a technique of communication and persuasion. As such, it may be employed at the service of truth or manipulation. It is perfectly legitimate, or even necessary, to use the best techniques of communication to honestly serve what you believe is true, good and beautiful. Those who are convinced of the truth, goodness and beauty of a Christian-inspired bioethics, are committed to find the best rhetorical ways to communicate it. In my opinion, the Christian-inspired bioethics has placed great emphasis in the line of the fair critical responses, but it may have not cultivated so much the rhetoric of the constructive proposals. This fact could give the false impression that the Christian- inspired bioethics is - let's say it in Lakatos' terms - a "regressive research program"; that it responds correctly, but does not propose anything. Thus it suffers a lack of initiative in the realm of the current debates. This article tries to develop this idea. To do this, I start with a general reflection on the rhetoric (Section 1) and then point out some particularly sensitive topics for the communication of bioethics: the rhetoric of time (Section 2), freedom (Section 3) and suffering (Section 4). The text concludes with a reflection on the possibility of a progressive rhetoric for communicating a Christian-inspired bioethics (section 5).
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Hacia una retórica propositiva para la bioètica. (2014). Medicina E Morale, 63(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.48
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