La riabilitazione della coscienza tra soggettività e soggettivismo. Note sul significato di "agire in scienza e coscienza"

[Autom. eng. transl.] In the code of ethics doctors are often urged to act in science and conscience and it is important not to separate one from the other. Consciousness expresses the primacy of the subject and underlines the independence of its judgment, but it must always be placed in relation with a real knowledge of facts and reality as a whole. The recognition of the primacy of the subject highlights that the choice of what to do is always returned to the freedom, and therefore to the responsibility, of those who are called to act. The text analyzes the various ethical-anthropological models that are widespread today, to highlight how freedom of conscience is a consequence of the moral constraint that the judgment of conscience entails for those who formulate it, but this evaluation does not have as its point of reference the subject, but reality. For this reason it implies a fundamental attitude of openness to the truth that, understanding the surrounding reality, one understands oneself as real subjects.