Abstract

MACRAIGNE, Stève. BIO-LOGICAL IDENTITY: ON THE CONSTITUTION OF IDENTITY IN HANS JONAS' PHILOSOPHICAL BIOLOGY. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp.34-49. ISSN 1657-4702.

The intent of this paper is to review the conception of identity that operates in logics in the light of the ontological comprehension of the life phenomenon developed by Hans Jonas (Jonas, 1966). The aim is to propose a formal scheme able to describe the identity constitution from the embodied life. This purpose may seem distant from the bioethics field, but in fact it is not: think about identity from life is to participate in the construction of a "science of survival" that "is rooted in biology" (Potter, 1971) and, to this extent, it means to respond to Potter's invitation to further the limits of biology to include philosophical thinking. In this regard, various foundational aspects of the life ontology set out by Jonas in The phenomenon of life (1966) are explored: the way Jonas addresses the identity from this ontology and some critical observations about his ontological and phenomenological strategy are considered. Afterwards, the phenomenological and ontological aspects Jonas develops for understanding life are examined in details. Finally, after this philosophical journey, a scheme which intends to phenomenologically describe the identity constitution from the ontological position of the relational nature (transitivity) of the embodied life is proposed.

Keywords : Embodied life; phenomenological description; life ontology; relational identity.

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