AN EXPANDED BIOETHICS FOR THE INCLUSION OF REFLECTIONS ON ANIMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

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AN EXPANDED BIOETHICS FOR THE INCLUSION OF REFLECTIONS ON ANIMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Journal Title: Revista Espaço do Currículo - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue 3

Abstract

This paper starts from the extension of the meaning of the term Bioethics, and seeks to justify in the discussion about ethics linked to life issues the inclusion of the problem of the moralstatus of nonhuman lives. It is a question of thinking about environmental problems as part of Bioethics, since different lives are more or less integrated and constitute a continuum of relationships and interdependencies. This senseof bioethics allowsusto think of acritical environmental education in which the human person does not perceive himself as outsideor above the natural environment, placing his life in an ethical and political differentiatedlevel, which authorizes him to dominate, explore, and make an indiscriminate use of other forms of life.The defense of this sense of bioethics is made by usingtwo interconnected theoretical strategies:1)The need to deconstruct hierarquical dualisms of value so that the personcanthink of himself as asubject inserted in an environment not only cultural, but also to some extent dependent on a natural world, in relation to which his life does not oppose. 2)The importance of encouraging new ways of relating to other forms of life, in a non-oppressive and non-destructive way,in order to give full meaning to the idea of nature preservation.In this sense, we intend to carry out, considering the contributions of ecofeminist thought, a critique of the hierarquical dualisms of value that form the basis of the patriarchal exploratory worldview, and to defend an approach in which relations between humans and non-humansare based on a continuum of life forms rather than supported by hierarchical divisions of value opposition.Bioethics courses can be a placeofawarenesspromotionin Higher Education about the need to propose a new place for the human being in relation to other forms of life.

Authors and Affiliations

Tânia Aparecida Kuhnen

Keywords

Animals. Bioethics. Ecofeminism. Education. Nature.

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As políticas curriculares desenvolvidas para a formação do pedagogo estão regulamentadas pelas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais (DCN) para o Curso de Pedagogia, consubstanciadas nos Pareceres CNE/CP n. 05/2005 e Parec...

EP ID EP682997
DOI https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1983-1579.2018v3n11.40172
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