Sanctity Of Life And Human Dignity

Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity

2012-12-06

This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.

Author: K. Bayertz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400915909

Category: Science

Page: 320

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`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.

The Edge of Life

2006-03-30

This book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these matters, see Kaczor 2002).

Author: Christopher Kaczor

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781402031564

Category: Philosophy

Page: 155

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The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of distinct moral questions and ?nds their answer in the dignity of the person, both as an agent and as a patient (in the sense of the recipient of action). Characteristically one’s view of the human being ultimately shapes one’s outlook on these matters. This book addresses questions that divide a culture of life from a culture of death as well as a number of questions debated within the Catholic tradition itself. The Edge of Life offers a critique of the new bio-ethic, represented by such notable authors as Peter Singer; it also attempts to shore up some of the dif?culties leveled by critics against the traditional ethic as well as to answer some questions disputed by those within the tradition. This book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these matters, see Kaczor 2002). Rather, The Edge of Life seeks to address a number of disputed contemporary questions touching upon human dignity at what has been called “the margins of life. ” The ?rst section of the book treats the dignity of the human person as recipient of action and as agent. Chapter two examines various accounts of when a human being becomes a person.

Human Dignity and Assisted Death

2017-09-22

Life. and. the. Dignity. WILLIAM J. FITZPATRICK ETHICAL DISCOURSE ABOUT end-of-life issues tends to be framed both in terms of the value or “sanctity” of human life and in terms of the importance of human dignity.

Author: Sebastian Muders

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190675981

Category: Medical

Page: 224

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Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics. Despite the strongly influential role human dignity plays in this debate, it still has not received the appropriate, multi-faceted treatment it deserves. Studies show that the notion of dignity already plays an important role in medical contexts: it is frequently used by health care professionals as well as patients. However, its use in these contexts needs to be analyzed and explained in more detail. Moreover, a review of the available literature clearly shows that the general, highly fruitful academic debate on human dignity is more than ready to take the next step into applied ethics: in particular, into the even more controversial area of assisted death. This book offers a detailed philosophical analysis of dignity and how it relates to assisted death. Its audience will benefit both from the general discussion of human dignity it offers as well as from the specific bioethical context to which it is applied.

Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

2011-09-01

However, as Hoffmann LJ went on to point out in Bland [1993] AC 789, 830 it is not only autonomy which may have to take priority over the sanctity of life. Human dignity may also on occasions properly take priority: There is no formula ...

Author: Charles Foster

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781847318602

Category: Law

Page: 218

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Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right. This is wrong, says Charles Foster: dignity is not only an essential principle in bioethics and law; it is really the only principle. In this ambitious, paradigm-shattering but highly readable book, he argues that dignity is the only sustainable Theory of Everything in bioethics. For most problems in contemporary bioethics, existing principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and professional probity can do a reasonably workmanlike job if they are all allowed to contribute appropriately. But these are second order principles, each of which traces its origins back to dignity. And when one gets to the frontiers of bioethics (such as human enhancement), dignity is the only conceivable language with which to describe and analyse the strange conceptual creatures found there. Drawing on clinical, anthropological, philosophical and legal insights, Foster provides a new lexicon and grammar of that language which is essential reading for anyone wanting to travel in the outlandish territories of bioethics, and strongly recommended for anyone wanting to travel comfortably anywhere in bioethics or medical law.

A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die

The confrontation between upholders of death with dignity and upholders of the sanctity of life is , in fact ... First , human dignity and the sanctity of life are not only compatible , but , if rightly understood , go hand in hand .

Author: Barry S. Kogan

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

ISBN: 0202364526

Category: Medical

Page: 267

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This volume brings together original essays by many of the best and most prominent figures in the emerging field of biomedical ethics and presents them in a dialogue that significantly updates their earlier work. Focusing on the moral dilemmas that recent medical advances have created at both ends of the life course, the contributors discuss such issues as patient autonomy, hospital policies of risk-management, new developments in the abortion debate, genetic counseling and perinatal care, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, testing and treatment policies for HIV infection, and fairness in allocating health care and donated organs.

Maat the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt

2004

8.2 The Maatian Concept of Human Dignity The fundamental point of departure for both the discourse on moral worthiness ... tradition is the first to recognize and respect this intrinsic worth of humans and argue for the sanctity of life ...

Author: Maulana Karenga

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0415947537

Category: History

Page: 458

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Maat is the moral ideal of ancient Egypt whose texts contain information on Egypt's moral standards, its concepts of right from wrong, codes of behaviour and obligations. Written by a teacher of the tradition of Maat, this study is the `first philosophical book that is based on a philologically and historically critical treatment of first-hand Egyptian material'. Focusing on the Maatian ideal rather than moral practices, Karenga discusses what Maat is and its place within the genre of philosophical ethics and morality, asking what it can contribute to modern African culture and values. Extracts are transcribed and translated into English.

Political Agape

2015-04-29

protection owed all human beings.17 But, as suggested by their etymologies, the two terms are best seen as distinct. ... See, for instance, the essays in Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity, some of which link dignity and sanctity, ...

Author: Timothy P. Jackson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 9780802872463

Category: Religion

Page: 427

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What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to liberty and justice for all ? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics? Timothy Jackson addresses such questions in Political Agape: Prophetic Christianity and Liberal Democracy. Jackson argues that love of God and neighbor is the perilously neglected civil virtue of our time and that it must be considered even before justice in structuring political principles and policies. To indicate the specific implications of civic agapism, he looks at such issues as the death penalty, Christian complicity in the Holocaust, the case for same-sex marriage, and the morality of adoption. The book concludes with Jackson s reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. as a Christian hero.

Deconstructing Dignity

2014-01-10

Even with what we preach about the sanctity of life, we don't practice it. ... and how the concepts of dignity and sanctity, applied variously and inconsistently both to life in general and to human life in particular, manage to serve ...

Author: Scott Cutler Shershow

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226088266

Category: Philosophy

Page: 216

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The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from Cicero’s De Officiis to Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals to court decisions and religious declarations. Through them he reveals how arguments both supporting and denying the right to die undermine their own unconditional concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life with a hidden conditional logic, one often tied to practical economic concerns and the scarcity or unequal distribution of medical resources. He goes on to examine the exceptional case of self-sacrifice, closing with a vision of a society—one whose conditions we are far from meeting—in which the debate can finally be resolved. A sophisticated analysis of a heated topic, Deconstructing Dignity is also a masterful example of deconstructionist methods at work.

Israel yearbook on human rights Vol 29 1999

2000-12

There should be no automatic activation of the protection of human dignity at the expense of the sanctity of life in the first instance ( the example of the terrorist ) , just as there should be no automatic protection of the sanctity ...

Author: Dinstein

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

ISBN: 9041114947

Category: Political Science

Page: 288

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The "Israel Yearbook on Human Rights" - an annual published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University since 1971 - is devoted to publishing studies by distinguished scholars in Israel and other countries on human rights in peace and war, with particular emphasis on problems relevant to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The "Yearbook" also incorporates documentary materials relating to Israel and the Administered Areas which are not otherwise available in English (including summaries of judicial decisions, compilations of legislative enactments and military proclamations). Volume 29 contains, amongst others, articles on Sanctity of Life, Death with Dignity and Patient Autonomy, Medical Ethos, Ambivalence, and Discretion.

Sanctity of Life

1979

Author: Edward W. Keyserlingk

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105039597831

Category: Bioethics

Page: 224

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