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Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Kurt Bayertz

    1. University of Münster, Germany

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 52)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  3. Human Dignity

    1. Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea

      • Kurt Bayertz
      Pages 73-90

    2. The General Notion of Human Dignity and the Specific Arguments in Medical Ethics

      • Martin Hailer, Dietrich Ritschl
      Pages 91-106

    3. Ambiguities in the Concept of Menschenwürde

      • Dieter Birnbacher
      Pages 107-121

    4. Human Dignity and Genetic Tests

      • Thomas Petermann
      Pages 123-138

  4. The Concept of a Person

    1. The Concept of a Person in Moral Philosophy

      • Ludger Honnefelder
      Pages 139-160

    2. Alterity and Judgment: Some Moral Implications of Hegel’s Concept of Life

      • Mary C. Rawlinson
      Pages 161-175

    3. Persons as “Self-Originating Sources of Value”

      • Anton Leist
      Pages 177-199

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 311-320
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`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.

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  • University of Münster, Germany

    Kurt Bayertz

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