Physician Assistance in Dying: An Option for Christians?

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Lloyd Steffen
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Abstract

Opposition to physician-assisted suicide is widespread in Christian ethics. However, on a topic as controversial as physician-assisted suicide, no one can reasonably speak for “the Christian” perspective. Natural-law and, specifically, just-war thinking are claimed in the Christian tradition, yet the natural-law contribution to a Christian ethical analysis of physician-assisted suicide requires explanation and defense. Natural-law ethical theory affirms the central role of reason in moral thinking and provides a theoretical resource in contemporary ethics to assist in analyzing specific moral issues, problems, and conflicts. This essay seeks to demonstrate how just-war thinking, derived from natural-law tradition, allows movement from the theoretical world of natural-law theory to the practical world of normative ethics. Here the case is made that the just-war model of ethics helps elucidate the moral problematic involved in physician-assisted suicide while clarifying direction on this particularly thorny and controversial problem.
医生协助死亡:基督徒的选择?
反对医生协助自杀在基督教伦理中很普遍。然而,在像医生协助自杀这样有争议的话题上,没有人能合理地为“基督徒”的观点说话。基督教传统主张自然法,特别是正义战争思想,然而自然法对医生协助自杀的基督教伦理分析的贡献需要解释和辩护。自然法伦理理论肯定了理性在道德思考中的核心作用,并为当代伦理学提供了理论资源,以协助分析具体的道德问题、问题和冲突。本文试图证明源自自然法传统的正义战争思想是如何允许从自然法理论的理论世界向规范伦理的实践世界的运动的。这里的情况是,正义战争的道德模式有助于阐明涉及医生协助自杀的道德问题,同时澄清了这个特别棘手和有争议的问题的方向。
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