BIOETHICS AND BIOPOLITICS. TWO DIVERGENT EPISTEMIC DIMENSIONS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC FROM A TRANSPARADIGMATIC POSITION.

Abstract

The transformations of contemporary thought, in the light of the search for answers to the great questions that arise from the relationships between individuals and of these with the State and its institutions, find in the field of ethics and politics, two great epistemic dimensions that have been advancing asynchronously, in the context of the last decades, along with the development of great human conflicts and their approximation to the limits that define the instrumental reason for their existence, considering the interweaving of relationships that are They are basting around these dimensions, until they come to shape what is now known as Bioethics and Biopolitics. Considering these as two emerging epistemic categories, which try to act as mediating and regulating spheres of human behavior closely linked to the control and management of aspects related to life, health and death in the context of modern society, and its relationship with the exercise of power, managing to approach and find themselves in a divergent way in constant struggle, in scenarios of varying degrees of conflict, given the nature of their mutually exclusive principles that sustain them, and that are inherent to them, granting both epistemic categories, transparadigmatic dimensions in themselves. Hence, a transparadigmatic investigation is presented from the qualitative hermeneutic methodological perspective with procedures of an emergent, non-classical nature.