Year: 2023
Author: Müller, Christian, Penninger, Johannes
Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, Vol. 32 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 201–214
Abstract
Social Ethics After Telos
In the social and academic discourse of social ethical issues, Catholic social teaching has fallen into a minority position. This article argues that there is an overriding reason for this: modern secular ethics has “lost” the idea of telos, the conviction that human beings do not determine themselves the meaning of their existence, but receive it. This change in the conception of man in modern ethics is analyzed with the help of Alasdair MacIntyre’s philosophical approach. Emotivism, non-naturalism and nominalism are discussed as the main theoretical consequences of this. It is argued that virtually all modern socio-ethical disputes can be traced back to differences in the telos question – from bioethical issues at the beginning and the end of human life to gender theory, antinatalism, and questions of the ethical evaluation of artificial intelligence. Ultimately, not only the postulate of human dignity, but also the existence of human rights in general depends on the assumption of a supra-individual telos of the human being.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: German
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/zfl.32.2.201
Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, Vol. 32 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 201–214
Published online: 2023-04
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 14
Keywords: Telos christliches Menschenbild MacIntyre Emotivismus Non-Naturalismus Nominalismus Suizidbeihilfe Gender Menschenwürde
Author Details
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Müller und Johannes Penninger: Der Verlust des Telos in der Sozialethik | 201 | ||
| I. Einleitung | 201 | ||
| II. Der Mensch und sein Telos | 201 | ||
| III. Konsequenzen für die theoretische Sozialethik | 205 | ||
| 1. Emotivismus | 205 | ||
| 2. Non-Naturalismus | 207 | ||
| 3. Nominalismus | 208 | ||
| IV. Konsequenzen für die praktische Sozialethik | 209 | ||
| Abstract | 213 | ||
| Schlagworte | 214 | ||
| 214 | |||
| Keywords | 214 |