Bioethics and democracy

Abstract

The current paper tries to underline the main political consequences of contemporanean genetic revolution. It starts explaining how was the birth of Bioethics as science that appears because of a epistemological necessity of create a new learning fi eld with own methodology. Bioethics observes the application of Ethics to the ambit of the deep estructure of our lifes, that must be redefi nited since we have got to know completely how works our AND. Moral philosopher has the usual problem of his lack of scientifi c knowlodge, and the second great problem of the plurality of moral perspectives presupposed. Exemples like clonation or euthanasia show the diffi culties to conciliate the different interests in a democratic society.