Bioethics on the Energetic Resources - CEPEN Department Managed by Artur Victoria

Our Study Center and FORUM is organized by Portuguese speaking countries It worth to visit the sites ? even being in Portuguese you can always use the Google translator that will translate the whole site in seconds

Our Study Center and FORUM is organized by Portuguese speaking countries. It worth to visit the sites ? even being in Portuguese you can always use the Google translator that will translate the whole site in seconds.

There are Universities Rectors and Professors from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Timor and more lusophone countries.

The forum and the site has a very broad content focused on ?Energy?, being either in a technological or economical sense. However there is a section that goes to the use and production of energy resources in a bioethical approach.

Responsibility means taking our own attitudes with absolute coherence, consciousness and will.

The autogenously is determined by moral and ethical principles. The heterogeneity is determined by the individual tasks or ethics is a voluntary and social punishment.

In bioethics, we must have independence, because is with it that we will decide on who may or may not be free of the responsibilities in what will be developed and performed for us, as citizens or as decision makers.

Professional liability: The workers duties in the area of energy, including society and environment.

You can even emphasize it to fulfill the principle of morality and truth in pursuit of personal satisfaction.

We need to care about the society, with the community.

The philosophical foundations of responsibility in bioethics the autonomy and accountability interfere with the ability to handle the obligations and limits of generating self-control in the decision making process and its consequent actions so that there is a logic and a rationale of the social organization for the group.

Speaking about bioethics of the Energy ressources

The word bioethics with the sense of "ethical obligations ... not only with the humans but with all living beings," according to Engel (2004) was used for the first time in work published in 1927 by Fritz Jahr that defined the term bioethics as "the emergence of ethical obligations not only with the man but to all living beings."

Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, was precursor of Bioethics. Bioethical thinking based on your text Ethics of Reverence for Life, in 1923, which influenced Jahr, Potter and Leopold. In the seventies, which started to look for the first time the planet as a living organism, appeared in the United States, the hands of Van Rensselaer Potter, the name and concept of a neologism derived from the Greek words bios (life) and Ethik (ethics), a bioethics or applied ethics to life, as has become known since then. Westphal (2006), says it was created to describe the relationship between human life, plant and animal in the broad sense, putting the entire biosphere as a matter of your concern (Lovelock in his Gaia hypothesis).

In contemporary, bioethics is a study that invites for a reflection and efforts for a humanity dialogue, reflects and checks to some minimum consensus on some crucial issues related to human life. It is assumed by the diversity of topics at events, debates, developing the role of moral concerns in the complex. Since there is a human being is to bioethics, which took over the category of science, internationally recognized.

The academic side-to guides for study and research of today, defining the challenges of today''s world and our culture formatting.

Bioethics is a concept / study / research / reflection far beyond a simple demarcation issue, but can be seen in one area that has direct connection with humanity and with life. It is permissible to place major events in human terms of its bioethics analysis, such as the discovery of nuclear energy, the conquest of space, the discovery of DNA. Are major stages of evolution of mankind which require reformulating concepts and asking questions about the "good" and "evil" as well as the balance of the entire eco system of the planet.

People start to discuss the "bioethics of information" because information makes a completely change in the human life enabling scientific innovations as a social welfare, motor development and the dignity of the being.

The Bioethics had a serious impact on environmental (biodiversity convention. In: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - Rio 92. [Cited 19 jul2006]. Available at: http://www.ambiente.sp.gov. br.) and anthropological (ENGEL MS. The challenge of biotechnology to the ethics and anthropology. Porto Alegre: Veritas, 2004)

Concluding:

The energy that comes from natural resources, both organic (oil and coal) or natural (gas, wind, water, have a profound interference in the life of mankind. For its scarcity and lawless use under the justification of industrial development has to be thought, reflected in all its aspects, assuming - is a real concern about the future and survival of mankind:

1-It is a general understanding that the definition of energy is one of the key concepts of physics. Born in the nineteenth century, can be found in all disciplines of physics (mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc..), As well as in other disciplines, particularly in chemistry;

2 - No self definition, for study, discussion and reflection, this concept applies to production, transport and storage of energy consumption but mainly to the subsistence of humanity, progress and technological development;

3 - Emphasis on the pressures that policies makers, strategists use it for different purposes, some of which necessarily involve critical decisions with reflects on the subsistence of the mankind;

4 - The geographical diversity of the Portuguese-speaking countries gives an idea of the multiple tensions and pressures that the decision will have on energy production - through natural resources, alternative resources and technology;

5 - With unanimous opinion that the distribution and use of energy is a phenomenon of geopolitical issue for preventing peace;

6 - The political, business, national or international actors often negotiate and decide against interests that are not matching with the strategy and progress of the communities;

7 - There is no transparency in many discussions on methods of production of energy, either through the extraction of natural resources such as oil, natural gas and coal, and alternative ones which are intersected by vested interests between the public and private as well as competition from new alternative resources technologies;

8 - The debate is based discussing unilateral cases not including a multidisciplinary assessment;

9- There is no reflections on energy sustainability - evaluation of the moral and social decisions, focusing a bioethical sustainability of the planet and its biodiversity. There are only unilateral declarations, often for economical purposes rather than a constructive debate.

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