Abstract

One can distinguish three levels in the integrative unity of knowledge and norms, which is termed as ‘bioethics’. The first level is theoretical. It is connected with the facts and truths. The second level deals with establishing of certain standards and rules of conduct, with the monitoring of their implementation and the assessment of the results of implementation of norms. The third level is associated with individual behavior, formed on the basis of relevant knowledge, and the rules governing its application. The theoretical bioethics can act and act as an applied philosophy. At the same time, all three levels of bioethics exist in unity; the relationship between them has a vector character. Theoretical bioethics development lags behind that of practical and applied, which may lead to defragmentation of the discipline in general and loss of its scientific and social status. It is possible to overcome this trend purposefully, treating axiological problems of bioethics as primary to the deontological ones.