TY - JOUR AU - Gómez-Lobo, Alfonso PY - 2009/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Foundations of bioethics JF - Acta Bioethica JA - actabioethica VL - 15 IS - 1 SE - Original DO - UR - https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/16408 SP - AB - <p align="justify">After pointing out that Bioethics is just applied ethics, the article describes three bioethics fundamentals: utilitarianism, of principles and the basic good, examining their main postulates and revealing their apparent limitations. The article concludes that it is not possible to do bioethics in a reflexive form without a critical knowledge of options in moral philosophy and in ontology, and from which the main current disagreement with the application of ethics to the domain of human life are derived.</p> ER -