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Nihilism is a reality, difficult to define, but it is before us, and in the manner that it establishes rupture between the human spirit, the truth and the good supposes a threat for the humanity itself. In this paper, the observations of authors like M. Scheler, J. Maritain, H. Arendt, E. Levinas, M. Heidegger and others are studied. After referring to the nihilist pretension of the existence of a formal art without moral content, it collects the diagnostic of W. Kasper, and the calls of attention about the nihilist phenomenon in the encyclical Fides et Ratio of John Paul II, and recently of Benedict XVI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of Bioethics is to regulate the use of biotechnology in the field of human life. On this basis, this study analyzes various ethical models, showing how only a personalist anthropological basis is in keeping with the dignity of the human person. But, as only Revelation can give the whole truth about the value and meaning of human life, and this is the object of Moral Theology, this paper also shows the importance of the service which Theology provides for Bioethics. The distinction and relations between Moral Theology and Bioethics are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]