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GARCIA RESTREPO, Gladis del Socorro  and  NORENA QUICENO, Cielo Amparo. BIOETHICS, "EXAMINATION OF ONESELF", AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A PERSPECTIVE BASED ON MARTHA NUSSBAUM. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.53, pp.391-409. ISSN 0120-1263.  https://doi.org/10.18566/escr.v24n53.a08.

The article is the result of the research project "Higher Education in Humanistic Perspective: An Approach from Martha Nussbaum", having Nussbaum's book Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education as the main referent for the considerations presented. Hermeneutics is used as the philosophical method. One of the purposes of the article is to reveal how higher education courses in human development might be transformed from the perspective of self-examination in Martha Nussbaum's thought, understanding the latter as one of the three skills required for cultivating humanity. Self-examination is related to Bioethics in two different ways: first, by considering the current scientific context where some relevant issues arise and, second, it is exposed how its practice, by being in close relationship to the ethical and bioethical training of future professionals, is relevant for higher education teaching. Therefore, the consideration here presented is relevant and necessary precisely at a time when science progresses rapidly and not likewise the sense of humanity that should underlie and guide the actions of those involved in scientific progress and Health Care. Three topics are presented in the article: some considerations regarding the importance of bioethical thought, an approach to the particular meaning of Martha Nussbaum's "self-examination", and the examination of oneself and human formation related to Bioethics.

Keywords : Examined Life; Examination of Oneself; Bioethics; Higher Education.

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