https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2004.647
Personalism in the cultural area of the USA
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The article briefly deals with the situation of bioethics in USA, namely in the light of personalist approach. In the actual context, characterised by marked pluralism, that becomes concrete in a widespread utilitarianism and juspositivism, moral norms are conceived as either the result of a social agreement or arbitrary imposition by an authority.
The Author shows that the personalist approach rooted on objective natu- re and dignity of the human person could obviate the incongruousnesses of relativism and secularisation, through a series of examples concerning issues as contraception, euthanasia, sterilisation, reproductive technologies.
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