Human Dignity and Bioethics

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124 | Gilbert Meilaender (though she puts forward this view only while donning the robes of the prophet peering into a distant future) that bettering the human condition—and, more particularly, our own condition or that of others dear to us—is the only consideration that really matters in moral evaluation. She seems to think the analogy of fertilized apple seed to embryo as apple tree is to person an illuminating one, even though her discussion does not tell us how or when one becomes a person—without which information we could scarcely know what even to think about the analogy. But when these and other flaws are set to the side, we are still left with the fact that this paper sheds no light on what we mean by human dignity—and, hence, no light on how it might be endangered or protected. Churchland speaks of “threats” to human dignity, but she eschews the first task of an author: to help her readers understand why people have cared about her subject. They have cared in some considerable measure because they have thought that there might be ways of failing to recognize or demeaning the dignity of persons that did not necessarily involve harming them and that might even, in certain respects, benefit them. Nothing she says helps us think better about whether human dignity is in any way undermined when (say) parents attempt to determine the sex of their child, when those without diagnosed illness medicate themselves in order to feel “better than well,” when we attempt to enhance performance (of various sorts) by means of drugs, when someone is tortured. These are all instances in which we may have recourse to the language of dignity in order to express moral concern or condemnation; yet, nothing Churchland says helps us in any way to understand or evaluate such language. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that she is utterly tone deaf to the sorts of reasons Roman Catholics might have for rejecting contraception, or the reasons Catholics and others might have for thinking in vitro fertilization a violation of human dignity, or for worrying about cutting up dead bodies in order to seek knowledge or living bodies in order to get organs for transplant. I see no evidence that she could even begin to explain why, from their perspective, these people view such practices as violations of human dignity. And unless and until one is capable of that, the most dignified thing to do would be to remain silent.
Commentary on Churchland | 125 Notes 1 Peter T. Geach, The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures, 1973-74 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1977), p. 17. 2 C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1943), chapter 1: “Men Without Chests.”
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Alice Neel (1900-1984), T.B. Harlem
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Contents Letter of Transmittal to T
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Part IV. The Sources and Meaning of
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xii | Letter of Transmittal dignity
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xiv | Members of The President’s
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Council Staff F. Daniel Davis, Ph.D
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Introduction
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4 | Adam Schulman The task of this
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8 | Adam Schulman Yet while dignity
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10 | Adam Schulman all of us—whet
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20 | F. Daniel Davis of intrinsic r
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62 | Robert P. Kraynak While these
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12 Defending Human Dignity Leon R.
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Index A abortion 220-221, 222, 373,
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