Abstract

The article’s departing point is the conviction that contemporary micro-biology and gene-technology have confronted Christian ethics with a reality for which it is not sufficiently equipped. The whole debate on human cloning and human stem cell research has raised the challenge of a fresh understanding of man and humanity as well as an ethic that takes the creation as a whole seriously. The question posed is whether the zygote or even the embryo in the Petri- dish, is already a human person. It is suggested that the organic and cultural environment is essential to our understanding of man. Seeing that man is the product of a bio- cultural background together with individual choices, it is by definition impossible to clone man. The responsibility of man towards the rest of creation has to be understood against the background of a socio-linguistic framework which constitutes our ethics, perhaps as virtue ethics. The implication is that morality is intrinsically connected to reality.

Highlights

  • The article’s departing point is the conviction that contemporary micro-biology and gene-technology have confronted Christian ethics with a reality for which it is not sufficiently equipped

  • Van Niekerk (Beeld 26 Januarie 2001, 12) skryf ook in dieselfde gees dat wat ‘n mens se gevoelens oor kloning ook al mag wees, dit duidelik is dat ons Christene se etiese oordeelsvermoë nie tred gehou het met die mediese tegnologie van ons dag nie

  • Die argumente wat baie goedbedoelde Christene tans hieroor voer, sê hy, sal op die ou end “Godbeskamend” staan

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Summary

TEN GELEIDE

Dit is soms tog ook met ‘n gevoel van ónbehae dat mens die kontemporêre debat oor kloning in die teologie betrag. Aan die een kant is dit duidelik dat in die etiese beoordeling ‘n bepaalde mensbeskouing – ongelukkig ook meer as net terloops – nagehou word wat werklik uiters gedateer geraak het. Van Niekerk (Beeld 26 Januarie 2001, 12) skryf ook in dieselfde gees dat wat ‘n mens se gevoelens oor kloning ook al mag wees, dit duidelik is dat ons Christene se etiese oordeelsvermoë nie tred gehou het met die mediese tegnologie van ons dag nie. Peters (2003b:174) spreek in hierdie verband dan ook die versugting uit dat ons hierin ons nie deur ons vrese[2] moet laat lei nie, maar deur ‘n etiese raamwerk wat eventueel ‘n bepaalde spektrum van opsies sal daarstel. Laastens word enkele samevattende riglyne gebied vir sodanige ekoteologiese beoordeling van kloning

ASPEKTE VAN DIE MEDIESE NAVORSING
Die waardigheid van die mens
Profilering van ‘n eko-etiek
ANDERS DINK ANDERS DOEN
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