%0 Journal Article %T APORTES PARA UNA BIO¨¦TICA MEDIOAMBIENTAL Y LA COHABITABILIDAD HUMANA DESDE UNA VISI¨®N RELACIONAL %A Blas-Lahitte %A H¨¦ctor %A S¨¢nchez-V¨¢zquez %A Mar¨ªa Jos¨¦ %J Persona y Bio¨¦tica %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article shows the need to establish a correlation between man and the natural and cultural environment as a unit for survival. ecoethics main contributions to bioethics are developed from a relational perspective. taking into account the disastrous repercussions on life stemming from techno-industrial development, two extreme positions in environmental ethics are analyzed: anthropocentrism and physiocentrism. both these positions preserve the traditional dissociation between nature and culture as a base condition. a necessary epistemic change in ecological attitude is proposed, based on a cognitive reorganization to allow for the creation of quality contexts among men as part of the geoculture in which they live. %K ethics %K bioethics %K environment %K nature %K culture %K epistemology. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0123-31222011000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en