Moral Strangers, Markets and Secular Bioethics according to H. T. Engelhardt

H.T. Engelhardt’s reflections on bioethics show his vision of a correlation between liberalism and biopolitics expressed in the person as a proprietary conception of the body, the result of a link between liberal thought and the free market economic system. Pluralism has taken on a specific social conformity, erasing some of the categorical boundaries caused by manifest obsolescence and rewriting any plots of modernity based on socio-anthropological grammar. This shift in social space is configured within a specific historical-cultural horizon characterized by the pluralism of moral views and prompted by the emergence of new forms of intervention on the human body, posing questions on the categorisation of a person and their body.