Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Bioethics needs to look beyond the cutting-edge life-or-death scenarios and speak to the everyday inequalities of politically mismanaged and economically vanquished societies.
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Asking venerable religious traditions to play catch-up with the Enlightenment grates on my post-liberal nerves, I am afraid. As Sachedina points out, the process of critique is just as necessary in the other direction. I think we need to stand back from the starting point of my previous post and take in a wider picture.
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In talking about human dignity we are trying to see how secular humanists, Muslims and Catholic Christians have found a way to affirm that each human person is worthy of being treated with a respect which transcends that accorded to mere things.
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The focus of the Science and the Human Person project precludes an oversimplification of personhood based on theological doctrine alone. Rather, it is important to see theology within the larger context of cosmology and thus to understand the human person within the whole order of science, philosophy and theology. Read the full article »
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Modernity has played havoc in appraising human personhood. Science and technology are progressing unabatedly to improve the quality of human life, and yet the end result unwittingly points to further confusion in appreciating the natural and spiritual dimensions of the human person.
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What distinguishes us as persons, and not just as organisms, is a culture of human dignity–the shared idea that, as human beings, we are entitled to respect and recognition from one another.
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Pick up a work by Shah Waliyullah of Delhi (d. 1762), the great Indian polymath and sage-like figure, and he might commend your attention to sensory substitution, or synesthesia.
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I would like to offer an intervention that suggests how current bioethical debates, that may seem intransigent when the human soul is evoked, may be moved forward.
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Historically, Muslim bioethics has essentially been based on legal decisions without any reference to ethics as understood in secular discourses. In the last decade, some Muslim jurists have begun to understand the need to discuss their rulings in light of ethical considerations of right and wrong, resulting in a new moral discourse.
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Since the 7th century, Islamic normative texts have emphasized the importance of ensoulment and outer appearance in the definition of personhood.
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