Ethics-Governance: Article: The Sources Of Human Dignity

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The Sources Of Human Dignity The Sources Of Human Dignity Dr Paulina Taboada Profesor Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alameda 340 Correo Central 1 Santiago, Chile Last month, explaining the core of moral reasoning according to ethical personalism, I suggested that morality is not about ethical principles, commandments or laws, but primarily about the proper response to the human person’s essential dignity. This statement referred us to the question about the sources of human dignity, which I promised to review this month. In contemporary bioethical debates we encounter two main opposing – and apparently irreconcilable – conceptions of human dignity and its sources (Rippe & Schaber, 1999, Knoepffler & Haniel, 2000). The first is the traditional conception based on the person’s distinct position in the world: the person as ‘imago Dei’. Full Article: http://www.hospicecare.com/Ethics/monthlypiece/eithics2003/pom_april03.htm


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