Bioethical Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted on Aug 21, 2024 in Religion

Abortion

  1. Abortion (termination of pregnancy)

  2. Removal of a part of the human being’s existence:

    1. Spontaneous: Outside human will, no moral value.

    2. Provoked: One kills the child (inside or outside the womb). Attack on humanity. Types: aspiration, curettage, induced contractions, injection, prepared pharmaceuticals.

Caused offense to some, considered a crime in 1985.

  1. Therapeutic: Mother-child conflict.

  2. Practice: Violation.

  3. Eugene: Malformations (lack of solidarity).

Human life is threatened by not respecting natural law. Conclusion: Abortion should be condemned by all living beings as it goes against the dignity of the individual.

Euthanasia

  1. Good death (without bitterness, anguish, or grief) is peace with God and oneself.

  2. Currently an ambiguous term, it means to facilitate death.

  3. It seeks to anticipate the end of a sick life, to deprive them of pain and suffering.

  4. Voluntary surrender of useless treatments.

  5. It is an “assisted suicide” by act or omission.

  6. Religion and beliefs may be:

    1. Aid: Sense of senseless suffering and pain.

    2. Obstacle: It is understood as divine punishment.

Important to relieve the patient, but not with early death. It is always legally penalized. Solidarity and helping the patient (love, family support) is a defeat of that proclamation, practice, or advocacy. Gospel:

  1. Attempt to end life: Attack against humanity.

  2. Euthanasia is not whether doctors hasten death.

  3. It is not euthanasia if useless treatment is neglected.

  4. We cannot accept death; it would replace medicine.

Intimacy

  1. It refers to the interiority of the individual, linked to embodiment, and referring to the totality of their being or relationships with others.

  2. It is the self, and being with oneself, comprises the totality of their being and interpersonal relationships with their loved one.

  3. Includes self-control and self-transcendence.

  4. Profound communication with God or neighbor.

  5. Intimate communication is essential.

  6. The intimacy of spouses requires sexuality.

  7. Intimacy is associated with the achievements of modern culture.

  8. The importance of authentic human intimacy highlights the danger of anthropological individualism.

Freedom

  1. The notion of freedom is as old as humankind itself.

  2. Can be regarded as a personal quality that one has or will achieve.

  3. Is the most constitutive of human beings.

  4. Man is free and for freedom.

  5. Is the core of all human action and what distinguishes man from beast.

  6. Ability to decide, propose targets, and move towards them, ruling the action.

  7. It is interested in good sense and brand.

  8. Is presented as a gift and task; a privilege granted to us and a habit to be acquired.

  9. Is freedom for evil.

  10. Ability to achieve self-determined perfection, to love good by choice.

Natural Law

  1. There are natural laws (math, legal, moral).

  2. There are physical laws and moral laws that guide humans and affect happiness.

  3. They are different, but in both, there is a rule:

    1. Measure of the acts. It should be viewed as a model to which things should be adjusted.

Natural law = moral law: Natural or positive law and natural order to be in man’s acting. Not written. Universal law, immutable, innate, familiar to all, true and constant. Positive law: Regulates interhuman relations and requires respect for people. This is linked to the natural moral law. Specifies what is right. It enforces natural law and serves to prevent arbitrary judgments.

Health

  1. A bodily and psychic state that allows people to develop activities of daily living.

  2. State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. It covers necessities.

  3. Pillar of the quality of life.

  4. Complete health consequences as well:

    1. Utopia

    2. = disease, suffering, and pain.

Experience shows a continuum between health and disease, in which the extreme is perfect being on one side and early death on the other. The goal of achieving health depends on the individual countries:

  1. Sub: Health = food, hygiene, infections.

  2. Des: Health = obesity, accidents, exercise.

It is not appropriate to confuse the right to health with the right to healthcare. From the view of bioethics, health lies in not allowing the loss of quality of life.

Sexuality

  1. Inclination, an essential dimension of the natural living body.

  2. Constitutive aspect related to one’s being (male or female).

  3. Fullness of the person is only possible if the gift of love is present.

  4. Love is a fundamental and innate vocation of every being.

  5. Love is the development of sexuality that tends towards affectivity and sexuality.

  6. Love forever is to develop and result from the affective union with the corporeal.

  7. Different readings of the body:

    1. Biological differences (genetics, gonads, etc.)

    2. Psychological differences (love for the opposite sex)

    3. Masculinity and femininity as two forms of embodiment.

The third comes a unique love, perpetual, fruitful, and committed. Love is understood as the MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE and to the family. Rigorism (procreation) permissiveness (pleasure).

Corporality

  1. The person’s spirit or flesh incarnate spiritual.

  2. It is the body dimension of the body.

  3. Man experiences it in two ways:

    1. Personal demonstration of space-time.

    2. Limitation of the laws of nature and biology.

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