The Fundamental Perspective of Catholic Bioehtics

Philosophy and Culture 30 (1):19-44 (2003)
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Bioethics is the ethics part of the original, now with the rapid progress of biotechnology, especially for modern care on life, aging, sickness and death of the intervention and control, resulting in a variety of confusing people issues such as abortion, euthanasia, surrogate motherhood , cloning, genetic modification ... ..., so that contemporary bioethics has become the most important topic. But ultimately, the life of the core ethical issues involved, since through the ages is still the fundamental issues of ethics and even philosophy, that man? What characteristics of human life, values ​​and meaning? For this reason, application of technology to bring order to solve the ethical problems of life, breaking the human soul loss and confusion, and to protect the value of human life and dignity, we need to return to life at the most fundamental ethical thinking, to establish the truth of the basic life sight. Follow this one considered in this chapter to introduce the basic Catholic Bioethics sight of priorities. Text divided into four sections, Section I to the basic Catholic Bioethics overlooking the construction of sight context and root causes; II is the core of this article, will describe the basic Catholic Bioethics sight, and the resulting field of push as the absolute ethical norms; Section sight to view the Catholic ethical relationship with the natural moral law; final fourth quarter, based on the Catholic Church to further develop basic ethical horizon on positive ethical discipline. Bioethics is a part of ethics. Today, the rapid progression of biotechnology, particularly the intervention and manipulation of birth, aging, sickness and death by modern medicine, have bred all kinds of confusing problems, such as abortion, euthanasia, surrogate mothers, clones , gene modification, and so on. Therefore bioethics becomes an important issue in the contemporary society. But ultimately, the central issues of bioethics are the fundamental topics for centuries of ethics and even philosophy: Who are we? And what are our characteristics, values and meanings? Therefore, in order to solve the ethical problems produced by technology application, break the confusion and bafflement of human minds, and protect the value and dignity of human life, we have to return to the root of bioethical thoughts to establish the fundamental perspective about the truth and life. Accordingly, the writer tires to introduce the basic bioethical perspective of the Catholic Church. This article consists of four sections: the first section is to look at the construction and root of the fundamental bioethical perspective of Catholicism; the second section is the core of this paper, discoursing the fundamental bioethical perspective of Catholicism and absolute ethical norms inferred from this perspective; the third section is to examine the relationship between the Catholic ethical perspective and natural moral laws; and finally the fourth section is to further exploit the positive ethical injunctions founded on the fundamental bioethical perspective of Catholicism

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