Aseity
February 4th 2004, 11:40 PM
human beings used to live on earth, but they are only a distant memory. Us enlightened wombats here on Mars, have it all-together, now. Took a few years but we managed.
- Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.
"... we must be wary of those who are too willing to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death with dignity" or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a concept, it seems to me, that is in direct conflict with a religious and ethical tradition in which the human race is presented with " a blessing and a curse, life and death," and we are instructed '...therefore, to choose life." I believe 'euthanasia' lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk..."
-- C. Everett Koop, M.D. *
*taken from the book KOOP, The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, 1991.
Ethics
An area of philosophical and theological inquiry into what constitutes right and wrong, that is, morality, as well as what is the good and the good life. Ethics seeks to provide insight, principles, or even a system of guidance in the quest of the good life or in acting rightly in either general or specific situations of life. Broadly speaking, ethical systems are either deontological (seeking to guide behavios through establishment or discovery of what is intrinsically right and wrong) or teleological (seeking to guide behavior through an understanding of the outcomes or ends that ethical decisions and behavior bring about). - Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
C.S. Lewis The Case for Christianity
I am guilty of that, that is for sure. I have three fingers pointing back at me. Woe is me, I am a man of unclean lips.
Christian Ethics
by Dr. Ronald Nash (from biblicaltraining.org)
This online course is a basic introduction to pastoral and social ethics. There are 22 separate online lectures with outlines totaling approximately 16 hours. These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Philosophical Ethics
; Consequentialism; The Deontological Ethic;; The Virtue Ethic and Agapism; The Virtue Ethic of C. S. Lewis;Social Ethics; The Christian and the State; Justice; Economics;. Major Economic Systems; Christianity and Marxism; Interventionism; Problems in Public; Education; A Cure for Public Education; Biblical Ethics; Contemporary Moral Issues; Abortion; Infanticide and Euthanasia; Homosexuality and AIDS; Capital Punishment and Civil Disobedience; War and Peace; Divorce and Remarriage; Birth Control.
http://www.biblicaltraining.org/classes/ethics/frame.html
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
-- C S Lewis
--The Problem of Pain
- Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.
"... we must be wary of those who are too willing to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death with dignity" or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a concept, it seems to me, that is in direct conflict with a religious and ethical tradition in which the human race is presented with " a blessing and a curse, life and death," and we are instructed '...therefore, to choose life." I believe 'euthanasia' lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk..."
-- C. Everett Koop, M.D. *
*taken from the book KOOP, The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, 1991.
Ethics
An area of philosophical and theological inquiry into what constitutes right and wrong, that is, morality, as well as what is the good and the good life. Ethics seeks to provide insight, principles, or even a system of guidance in the quest of the good life or in acting rightly in either general or specific situations of life. Broadly speaking, ethical systems are either deontological (seeking to guide behavios through establishment or discovery of what is intrinsically right and wrong) or teleological (seeking to guide behavior through an understanding of the outcomes or ends that ethical decisions and behavior bring about). - Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
C.S. Lewis The Case for Christianity
I am guilty of that, that is for sure. I have three fingers pointing back at me. Woe is me, I am a man of unclean lips.
Christian Ethics
by Dr. Ronald Nash (from biblicaltraining.org)
This online course is a basic introduction to pastoral and social ethics. There are 22 separate online lectures with outlines totaling approximately 16 hours. These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Philosophical Ethics
; Consequentialism; The Deontological Ethic;; The Virtue Ethic and Agapism; The Virtue Ethic of C. S. Lewis;Social Ethics; The Christian and the State; Justice; Economics;. Major Economic Systems; Christianity and Marxism; Interventionism; Problems in Public; Education; A Cure for Public Education; Biblical Ethics; Contemporary Moral Issues; Abortion; Infanticide and Euthanasia; Homosexuality and AIDS; Capital Punishment and Civil Disobedience; War and Peace; Divorce and Remarriage; Birth Control.
http://www.biblicaltraining.org/classes/ethics/frame.html
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
-- C S Lewis
--The Problem of Pain