Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.59.3.4
Dignity of Person in Context of Christian Anthropology
Suzana Vuletić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5629-6635
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Đakovu, Đakovo, Hrvatska
Ana Puljić
Abstract
Dignity represents the supreme value of human being and
his/her transcendental distinctiveness. Trying to cover the complex
idea of dignity as fully as possible, the first part of the article
starts from interdisciplinary presentation of dignity through
philosophical, theological and bioethical foundation, which
encounter certain value aberrations in view of its universality and
normativity. Therefore, in the second part, the article points out
the necessity of the person’s legal protection as part of inalienable
human rights. The final part seeks to integrate the previous
two, observing dignity from the perspective of Christian personalistic
anthropology, emphasizing that the emergence of human
dignity is primarily based on the creation of man in the image
of God, founding it on the integral anthropology which observes
man in the holistic unity of spirit and body. On this basis, the
human dimension of holiness is also derived, which strongly
affirms the inviolability of human dignity, with special protective
emphases from the perspective of the Church Magisterium.
Keywords
dignity; person; Christian anthropology; bioethical personalism; human rights;
Hrčak ID:
225244
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Publication date:
16.9.2019.
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