Abstract
This is a theoretical essay on biopolitics as a context to discuss issues of bioethics. It uses the concept of a theorem as a set of axioms from which and under whose perspective, discussions are developed in which they are implied. The starting point is that modern times have introduced the biopolitical management of life. This management presupposes the transformation of life in an exchange currency, making its biopolictal and economic capture possible. It has taken place through biotechnologies and more recently by the internalization of the technical system in people’s own subjectivity, becoming a gear included in the economic processes. This automatic capture weakens human subjectivity because it separates human subjectivity from its form-of-life, a condition for autonomy. The biopolictal theorem is the base to discuss bioethical problems, allowing for the presence of sociocultural dynamics of its configuration and understanding its ethical analysis as critical hermeneutics.
Knowledge; Bioethics; Power (Psychology)-Control-Behavior; Government; Economics