Personal Autonomy and Corporeality: a Current Issue

  • Armando S. (h) Andruet Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Villa María.
Keywords: autonomy, freedom, bioethics, human life, human body

Abstract

This article reflects on the new scope that the autonomy ofpersons has gained through technological developments, amongother reasons, applied mainly to the biological and health spheres. Historically, autonomy was developedfrom the perspective of «negative freedom»(freedom from), i.e. freedom from differentconstraints, and «positive freedom», only asfreedom of thought. Presently, a type of autonomyhas gained relevance that is both self-referentialand external, and projects itself as positivefreedom, i.e. «freedom to». The relationshipbetween technological development and theautonomous exercise of positive freedom opens up an unsuspected domain of realizations thatcould not be submitted to moral or juridicalreproach, which is where its unique difficultylies; for example, as regards convergencetechniques for human development or, in anextreme case, similar decisions concerninghuman life.

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Author Biography

Armando S. (h) Andruet, Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Villa María.

Doctor en Derecho. Miembro de Número de la Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Córdoba y de la Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba. Profesor Titular de Filosofía del Derecho (Universidad Católica de Córdoba). Profesor Titular de Historia de la Medicina (Universidad Nacional de Villa María). Director Honorario del Centro de Bioética de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Magistrado en retiro del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Córdoba. 

Published
2018-12-24
How to Cite
Andruet, A. S. (h). (2018). Personal Autonomy and Corporeality: a Current Issue. Cuadernos Universitarios, (XI), 9-26. Retrieved from http://revistas.ucasal.edu.ar/index.php/CU/article/view/12
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