Year: 2023
Author: Schallenberg, Peter
Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, Vol. 32 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 241–264
Abstract
Catholic Social Ethics as Bioethics
In the course of innovations in the field of medical and biotechnology, human life has become disposable at its limits, in birth, disease and death, to an extent that we would have considered unthinkable only a short time ago. Bioethical discourses, in the face of these new challenges, always move within the triangle of ethics, medicine, and jurisprudence. Insofar as the considerations of bioethics flow into law and legislation, it thus also proves to be a social ethics relevant to law, in which questions of just and successful coexistence come together. In order to clarify this relationship, the article first addresses the basic principle of a Catholic bioethics that argues deontologically and tutioristically: the inviolable dignity of the person and of the human being, as it is prominently formulated in Art. 1 GG as the fundamental ethos of the German constitution. With recourse to secular attempts to justify this fundamental ethical principle by Greco-Roman and modern thinkers on the one hand, and their reception in the Christian tradition on the other, the central question of the mutual translatability between the theological speech of the image of man in the image of God and the secular rational concept of human dignity is addressed. After these fundamental provisions, a look at exemplary bioethical problems at the beginning and end of life is offered.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: German
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/zfl.32.2.241
Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, Vol. 32 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 241–264
Published online: 2023-04
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 24
Keywords: Bioethik Menschenwürde Würde Patientenautonomie Gottebenbildlichkeit Präambel GG Präimplantationsdiagnostik ESchG Suizidassistenz
Author Details
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Schallenberg: Katholische Sozialethik als Bioethik. Für Manfred Spieker zum 80. Geburtstag | 241 | ||
| Für Manfred Spieker zum 80. Geburtstag | 241 | ||
| I. Deontologische Bioethik | 241 | ||
| II. Grundprinzipien der sozialethisch relevanten Bioethik | 243 | ||
| III. Axiomatisch verstandene Menschenwürde | 244 | ||
| IV. Würde der Person | 245 | ||
| V. Aufgabe der Person | 247 | ||
| VI. Vernunft und Gottebenbildlichkeit | 248 | ||
| VII. Ethische Fragen am Lebensanfang | 252 | ||
| VIII. Ethische Probleme am Lebensende | 256 | ||
| Abstract | 263 | ||
| 264 | |||
| Schlagworte | 264 |