尊严的概念及在生命伦理中的应用

The Conception of Dignity and Bioethics

尊严的概念在生命伦理学中得到了广泛的应用,但其对生命伦理的意义和价值体现在什么地方还存在着分歧。学者迈凯琳等认为尊严是一个无用的概念,应该从生命伦理学中驱除出去,而学者卡斯等则认为尊严是分析安乐死、临终关怀等生命伦理问题时不可缺少的概念。为了说明这些问题,就需要在尊严的历史维度中,从涉及到尊严的文献、规章中去找寻尊严的规定性,只有这样才能在生命伦理中得以充分地证明其存在的维度。

Over the past few decades,the concept of dignity has been widely applied to bioethics. However,there are significant differences in the concept of dignity. As the representative of some of the radical scholar Macklin believes that dignity is a useless concept,should be get rid of the bioethics; while scholar Kass holds that dignity is indispensable to analyze the ethical issues of euthanasia and other life concept. To illustrate these problems,we need to return to the dignity of the historical dimension,related to the dignity of literature,regulations,case to find dignity. The only way to be fully developed in Bioethics.