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Bioethics in Catholic Theology and Scientific Bioethics

Every creature is good and under the principle of solidarity everyone has been blessed and gifted with life by God. Therefore we cannot have one without the other, and no man exists without an animal. During the last decades our world has been confronting many ethical problems and ethics is more and more sought in human conduct and profession. Man has come into enormous power over the world and life, but he has also, willingly or not, become more responsible for 'the threats' against his very life as well as against the life of other creatures. Within this context a discussion on biocentrism has ensued which should replace Christian biblical anthropocentrism. At any rate, man has encountered a request to expand his moral sphere because the nature needs his protection while he no longer needs to protect himself from nature. It is exactly this level that poses a paradox: only the man can give protection to nature and the whole life in it. Having crossed all the limits, he has to establish them again. Once again he has to search for these limits within himself, which is exactly what the original Christianity demands: to act according to one's pure belief (St. Peter). The aim of this work lies in trying to give the answer to questions of how to preserve life and healthy environment, how to achieve harmony between the development and modern ideas and trends as well as what the right relationship between man and his environment is. The author primarily points out the rising of pastoral medicine in the Catholic theology whose appearance was caused by the development of medical science and which gradually transforms into today's bioethics that is acknowledged by the theology. He then proceeds speaking about the disharmony between man and nature, about the rising of 'animal rights' movement and finally about the beginnings of scientific and global bioethics which has developed in the USA and which has spread throughout the world. However he also tries to speak about the European path of bioethics stressing out the fact that this term is far older because it was made in Germany in the year 1927 and which far more corresponds to the idea of integrative bioethics.

ethics, bioethics, life, theology, medicine, the Church, the Cristianity, science

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