Human dignity and bioethics

Eighteenth-century declarations of human rights pointed to a Creator (the American Declaration of Independence) or a Supreme Being (the French Declaration of Human Rights) as their guarantors. The increasing secularisation of politics and culture has led human rights theorists to ...

Bioethics and faith

The problem of the relationship between bioethics and faith is complex when it concerns the Christian religion. It begins at the level of the relationship between philosophy and Christian philosophy and, more specifically, with the contentious question of whether philosophy can have a Christian character. In the light of ...

Bioethics: dilemmas, disputes, positions

Just as developments in scientific research in astronomy and physics have challenged the anthropocentric view of the world, modern developments in biology have dealt a blow to the anthropocentric view of nature, helped by both evolutionary theory and the discovery of a common...