De la naturaleza a la biojurídica

The article proposes a recovery of the philoso- phy of nature in a metaphysical sense as the basis for a foundation of biolaw. The reference author is Francesco D’Agostino, a recently deceased Italian legal philosopher and bioethicist: his cultural heritage is put into dialogue with the thought of other masters of contemporary phi- losophy, such as Sergio Cotta and Robert Spaemann. The essential thesis that emerges from the work is that only a metaphysically open conception of human nature is able to provide biolegal reflection with a solid foundation for the correct formulation and solution of the problems and challenges that current manipulative biotechnologies pose to us, avoiding both the forward escapes of posthu- manism and the theoretical surrender to technomorphic praxis.