Arguably, one of the best extended contemporary discussions of human dignity and its implications for biomedicine was commissioned under President George W. Bush and convened by his President’s Council on Bioethics. The council’s two reports, Being Human (2003), and Human Dignity and Bioethics (2008), are the results of more than a few public meetings, thousands …
We live in an age in which it has become fashionable to talk about the rising tide of agnosticism and atheism. But the truth of the matter is that we live in a society flush with faith. You have to have faith when you live in uncertain times. You go looking for answers. As long …
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In Moliere’s 17th-century play, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (“The Rotarian,” so to speak), a Mr. Jourdain asks his tutor to help him write a love letter. When asked, in return, whether it should be a work of poetry, Jourdain says no. In that case, it’ll have to be “prose,” replies the tutor. But Jourdain doesn’t want …
The Checkout Clerk Is an Ethicist, and So Are You Read More »
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, … Colossians 2:8-9 (ESV) Deservedly notorious are university professors who delight in …