Van Rensselaer Potter y Edgar Morin: cambios en el pensamiento ético contemporáneo

Abstract

Study of the contributions of the Potter's global bioethics and Morin's complex ethics to the contemporary ethical thought, from an interpretive perspective based on three analytic procedures. Establishing a dialogue between the foundations of both theories, despite of terminological and conceptual differences between Potter's and Morin's works--, this paper recognized, an essential, readable community between them. Nine elements are identified that define this essential community: 1) The opposition to the classical conception that establishes dichotomies that separates knowledge and morality, natural and social sciences; 2) The recognition of the responsibility like a basic principle of knowing and morals; 3) The identification of the relativity of the morals in connection with the moral complexity and the moral diversity; 4) The centrality of science-ethics-politics' relationship in the contemporary understanding of the human matters; 5) The contextualized understanding of the subject of knowledge (observer) and morals; 6) The identification of the non-social bases of the morality; 7) The amplification of the circle of the morality; 8) The opposition to the "moralina"; 9) The overcoming of the "isms". This essential community points out, in an enriched way, important elements of change in the contemporary ethical thinking.