The Crisis of Personhood: Why We Need to Broaden Our View
Introduction This paper does not deal with the epistemological theory of reductionism itself. Rather, it asks for the ethical consequences and implications of reductionisms in current bioethical debates. The paper acts from the assumption that the concept of personhood acquired in most of nowadays bioethical discussions in Western discourses1 (1) represents an illegitimate ethical reductionism…
