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Body and Soul
Posted By Stefan Monsaureus
From today’s Washington Post, a “Mystery of Body and Soul” in which author Philip Clayton explores the Terri Schiavo case from both a religious and scientific perspective.
Some who integrate science and values in this way do so in religious terms,
others eschew religious categories and adhere instead to a humanist
philosophy….The humanist response is more subtle, amorphous and hence harder
to describe. But for many nonreligious people, the sense remains that life is
somehow sacred even if it is not grounded in a divine creative act. Something
more emerges in life, and something more is lost when it ends, than medicine can
ever fathom. Perhaps the value of an individual’s life is a product of how we
treat him or her.
The distinction not made above, though, is between mere human life, and human personhood. And that is, indeed, more subtle, amorphous and hence harder to describe.
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