The Vatican, the Law and the Human Embryo
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-52962-1 (ISBN)
Part 1: Catholic and universal; inalienable human rights; embryos, human beings, and persons. Part 2 Mediation and St Thomas Acquinas: salvation through mediation; body and soul; knowledge of the natural law; the influence of Thomas. Part 3 What price human life?: dubious headlines; double-effect and the Pauline principle; irreconcible commitments; the price of humanlife; the inevitable conclusion. Part 4 Natural and divine values: revelation and knowledge of moral law; natural law and civil legislation; church teaching and natural law; natural law and the special value of human life; revelation and the special value of human life. Part 5 The argument of the instruction: the concept of a person; the embryo as person?; souls and embryos; the potentiality argument. Part 6 Doubt and scepticism: the benefit-of-the-doubt argument; further considerations regarding the concept of a person; the 19th century perspective changes; doubt and scepticism; "The one who will be a man already is one". Part 7 Revelation and legislation: the citizen's rights; the embryo/fetus as a citizen?; the Christian's dilemma; justice and inequality; concluding remark - religion, reason, and civil society.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.6.1990 |
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| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 125 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-333-52962-6 / 0333529626 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-52962-1 / 9780333529621 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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