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Bioethics
Valentin Pozaić
; Filozofsko-teološki institut Družbe Isusove u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the contemporary ethics and moral theology more and more attention is drawn by the question relating the manipulation of human life itself. Nobody can skirt these questions, especially if he or she is responsible for the national ecclesiastical community. Since the year 1971 a new interdisciplinarian ethics, called bioethics. has appeared: under different aspects it includes all the questions relating to the human life or life in general — according to different definitions.
In order easier to find out the answers to numerous new questions, new periodicals and centres of bioethics have been erected, either independent or connected with medical and theological schools.
Starting with the bioethical problems — at the beginning, in the full development and at the decline of human life — the author exposes the definition, methodology and necessity as well as the ethical and moral principles which are desirable and necessary in bioethics. Notwithstanding the many difficult and anxious questions propounded in front of us by the biology and medicine, thanks to new technical possibilities of intervening into human life, the author is of the opinion that human life must not become subject to arbitrary manipulation — misuse and disrespect — but it should be a subject of increasing human treatment — ennobling of human life in harmony with his human dignity as we discover it in the light of reason and Revelation.
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Publication date:
20.4.1987.
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