Metropolitan Nafpaktos and Hierotheos: Bioethics and Metabiologytranslated

Of Metropolitan Nafpaktos and Saint Basilios Hierotheos All the movements observed and currently observed in society have their aftermaths, thus biology developed and followed by metaphysics, and subsequently antimetaphysics. The Enlightenment-Modernism, which is a movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, caused great debate, hence the discussion about the premodern and postmodern elements.

In a similar manner, as biology developed in the Western world to address issues related to Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, so it seems that a stream is emerging that can be characterized as metabiology, that is, an engagement with these issues beyond the humanistic bioethics. This topic will be addressed in the present introduction, not as a rejection of bioethics, but as a completion and expansion of it. Thus, the term metabiology completes the term bioethics and interprets it better, expressing in its entirety the human being, who consists of soul and body.

As we know, the emergence of Biomedical Research and Biotechnology created the need to develop a special science...