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Individual in contemporary bioethical debate - Functionalist and ontological understanding of person

The concept and definition of person is objectionable or uneven in different disciplines and scientific fields, which is especially prominent in contemporary bioethics. A person, as comprehend by Representatives of lay bioethics, especially Egelhardt and Singer, ignores an important component of personality that stand out and protects Christian theology and personality anthropology, and it is man's spiritual dimension. In the dominant desire for control and improvement of man and the world, these lay representatives of bioethical thought, attach the value and dignity of human life only if a person is psycho-physically healthy. The same talk of "gradient" personality if they believe that human beings in embryonic stage of life, mentally ill or people in coma may not be endowed with personality, because personality is conditioned only by self-awareness and rationality. One becomes a person through life by its acts and acquired personality is easily lost, it is enough to fall ill or to fall asleep. In contrast, the Christian personalism, especially the recent encyclical (EV and CA) are in accordance with the requirements of the time but always on the line of thinking of renowned philosophers and theologians like St.Tome, speaks of an unconditional and objective value and dignity of man arising from his createdness in the image of God and calls upon us to become like God. Man is called into a life that is also given to him with that goal and he achieves it through freedom, responsibility and relationship with others. In the community, man shapes his own personality, which is not dependent on age, nor the psycho-physical givens or abilities, and even less is lost or reduced while in uterus or in while sleeping.

human dignity; Christian personalism; bioethics; freedom; responsability; development; person; human relations

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