BASIC APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF THE ESSENCE OF THE CONCEPT OF "LIVING"

Abstract

Modern studies of the being of man are inseparable from the definition of the essence of the concept of “living” as such. The peculiarity of new research is the change of the paradigmatic approach from the biological proper, in the basis of which the very fact of the being of the object, to the bioethical, whose essence is the reflection of the subject with respect to one's own or other existence through the prism of the morality of human actions about such existence. That is why, the authors of this article aim to investigate the development of modern approaches to the definition of the essence of the concept of “living” as one of the fundamental characteristics of the existence of natural and social existence, and also to demonstrate the changes taking place in the reflection of the object under study due to the latest scientific achievements, using the bioethical approach.

Keywords

• living
• phenomenon
• nature
• life
• biophilosophy
• bioethics