Ethics of duty and bioethics: problem of social regulation

Abstract

The author demonstrates that a new collective consciousness is being formed (contrary to the «axis time» transition from col- lective consciousness to individual consciousness), and in this situation ethical relationships are being transformed into juridical re- lationships. In parallel to this process, the ethics of duty with its address to clan consciousness is being pushed out by utilitarian eth- ics. Meanwhile the secularization of reality is being realized. In these conditions bioethics play a major part in the process of avoid- ing ethical responsibility.