Integrative Thinking or: How Can the Birth of Subject out of the Spirit of Bio-Sciences Be Stopped? Cover Image

Integratives Denken Oder: Wie Kann der Geburt des Subjekts aus dem Geist der Biowissenschaften Vorgebeugt Werden?
Integrative Thinking or: How Can the Birth of Subject out of the Spirit of Bio-Sciences Be Stopped?

Author(s): Klauss Thomalla
Subject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Existentialism, Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Integrative Conscience; Integrative Thinking; Bioethics; Intuition; Technical Rationality; Self-Understanding; Practical Mind;

Summary/Abstract: The problem of bio-sciences lays in a fact that through these sciences our very existence is being questioned, and therefore putting our selfunderstanding as the natural beings into jeopardy. This tendency is probably connected to gradual loss of traditional religious conscience, which is being more and more compensated within the secular borders, in a way that we bring our psychological state to depend on biotechnological performances, rather than on hope and religious notion of life after death. – As far as the biotechnological discussions are conscerned, various standpoints are possible: on one side, there are partial technical and economical rationalities; on the other, there is rationality that is here marked as integrative thinking and which consists of four perspectives: religious, philosophical-ethical, legal-ethical and intuitive. The goal is integrative conscience which is capable of revealing reductionist positions as such and establishing and opposing its integrative way of thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: German