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the text seeks to expand the boundaries of the concept of "global bioethics," the core of Van Rensselaer Potter's theoretical proposal on "ecological bioethics" in his work Global Bioethics, in the face of the "ethics of the Earth" developed by the ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold and the analysis of "ecosophy" raised by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari in The Three Ecologies. This characterization is proposed to establish theoretical assumptions around the notions of ecological bioethics and ecosophy from the perspective of global bioethics in a renewed attempt to broaden its disciplinary horizons. Three moments are established for the analysis: initially, the land ethics proposed by Arnold Leopold in his work A Sand County Almanach is characterized. Subsequently, the main aspects of "ecological ethics" in Global Bioethics are analyzed. Finally, several aspects of Félix Guattari's ecosophy are highlighted that put into perspective the ecological accent of Potter's global bioethics, which could be considered valid divergent presuppositions to enrich global bioethics today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What should be the starting point of the bioethical analysis of science and technology? In almost half a century of history, different perspectives of bioethical analysis of science and technology have been formulated. This article recognizes the broad theoretical context on the subject and will not inquire about it, but on a more fundamental issue: the need to specify a common starting point for the different analyses, to avoid some frequently flawed budgets. The article proposes as a point of departure for the bioethical analysis indicated an internalist perspective, oriented fundamentally to face the task of dismantling deterministic presuppositions, and not an externalist, traditional and moralizing view. The text specifies the different meanings of the deterministic viewpoints on science and technology commonly assumed, and their relations with moral judgments. It also analyzes, in a comparative form, the way in which several authors and perspectives take or question this type of approach. The fundamental contribution of the article is to propose as a basic ethical perspective the task of opening the black box of moral judgments and dissolving the precarious deterministic understandings of the nature of science and technology, in which many of the bioethical analyses on the subject remain imprisoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]