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 ultimate...
The article discusses the concept of dignity based on the recent instruction "Dignitas Personae" of the Catholic Church in the U.S. It explores some of the bioethical questions including the moral status of embryos, cloning and in vitro fertilization. The expertise of professor Robert George to ...
and hospice homes to comfort. All of these projects were based on theCatholic Church’s proclamation “ human life is sacred and the dignity of the human person is the foundation of society.” ( ) By establishingMissionaries of Charityin 1948, which served society 's poor and marginalized, ...
the opening of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” (UN1948). And the first article of the German...
Dignity as being created in the image of God The Catholic Church also promotes the idea that all human beings have dignity, because all human beings, they maintain, "are created in the image and likeness of God". These two groups of dignity interpretations (aspirational and intrinsic) are joi...
On June 26, 1945, was approved the Charter of the United Nations, whose Preamble explicitly referred to the “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and.
Brother Fox, the courts and death with dignity. The article examines the teaching of the Catholic Church on the use of extraordinary medical procedures to prolong a life in the U.S. Reverend Richard A. M... JJ Paris - 《America》 被引量: 2发表: 1980年 ...
The culture of death is in full bloom, folks. St. Therese of Lisieux, a doctor of the Church who evidently experienced some sort of temptation toward the taking of her own life on her deathbed, urged her sister-nurse never to “leave near them [meaning her patients] any medicines that ...
For this reason, the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the prohibition on suicide in this way: “We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted us. It is not ours to dispose of” (2280). And where is the dignity in death? My own father died last year, alone ...
The article offers updates on the activities of Dignity-Integrity, an organization based in Rochester, New York that spreads the vision of the Episcopal Church. Dignity-Integrity awaits the hearing on the Equal Marriage Bill at the New York State Senate floor. Other scheduled events of the group...