%0 Journal Article %T Hacia una mejor comprensi¨®n del papel de la naturaleza en los debates bio¨¦ticos %A Feito Grande %A Lydia %J Veritas %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-92732010000200006 %X in the present bioethical debates is usual finding appeals to nature as a way to justify certain moral options. therefore, the invocation of a supposed ˇ°natureˇ± of human beings, or the seemingly unquestionable ˇ°natural lawˇ± turn into bastions of an ethics not willing to abandon a fixed and reliable substratum. nonetheless this approach must to be revised. instead of human nature is required to deal with capacities of elements which make possible the human options. %K bioethics %K human nature %K natural law %K order %K naturalistic fallacy %K bioconservaties %K transhumanists. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-92732010000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en