THE DELIBERATION METHODS INVOLVED IN BIOETHICS: THE TECHNICAL AND THE ETHICAL-MORAL DELIBERATION

This article analyses the problem formulation regarding new technologies and their ethical and legal limits. Therefore, in first place it assesses the contributions of two of the most important contemporary jus-philosophers on the topic, Jurgen Habermas and Ronald Dworkin, and a possible dialog of these two with the one who was one of the founders of the classical ethics, Aristotle. Subsequently, it tries to answer the question of how can we understand the idea that Dworkin called "moral dislocation" between chance and choice or what Habermas called "expanded contingency"? Finally, it discusses how the Aristotelian distinction between technical and ethical-moral deliberation can collaborate to form a better understanding of the issues concerning the decisions and choices to make by moral agents ( such as patients, family members or judges) and the type of technical deliberation done by the doctor and the healthcare professional.