Human Dignity and Bioethics

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as heaps of chemicals 161
as historical 136–139, 145
as imitators 103
as machines 62, 63–68, 80, 90,
165, 299
as more than animals 67, 130,
131–133, 136, 240, 324, 354
as neither beasts nor gods 70, 84,
168, 259, 266
as persons 411
as rational animals 136, 272, 337,
410
as research subjects 62, 298, 300,
312
as social animals 102, 279
as tools 359
Hume, David 219, 426
Hurlbut, William 384, 386
Husserl, Edmund 207
Huxley, Aldous 303, 311
Brave New World 185, 187, 303
I
infanticide 481
informed consent 10, 15, 300, 334,
336, 348, 382
in vitro fertilization See reproduction:
in vitro fertilization
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go 375
J
James, William 534
Jefferson, Thomas 91, 167, 288–289,
386, 398
Jesus Christ 79, 318
Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital,
New York City 22
Jonsen, Albert 25
Birth of Bioethics 25
Judaism 8, 263, 388, 397, 399–401,
403, 470
Judeo-Christian tradition 94, 287,
388, 390, 397, 402, 405, 470
justice 23–24, 365 See also Rawls,
John: “sense of justice”
K
Kant, Immanuel 10–11, 12, 15,
26, 32, 33, 91, 92, 93, 168,
174, 175, 176, 178, 192, 243,
245, 246, 267, 311, 313, 353,
354, 356, 360, 361, 379, 381,
382–384, 403, 472, 473, 482,
485 See also dignity: Kantian
notion of; See also embryos:
and Kant; See also persons:
Kantian
and humanity 129
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point
of View 338, 341
as father of “autonomy” 14, 242,
312
categorical imperative 10, 14, 312,
483
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of
Morals 334, 446, 472
Metaphysics of Morals 337, 341
“pure reason” 101, 116
Religion within the Boundaries of
Bare Reason 337
Kass, Leon R. 183, 185, 192,
249, 259–261, 262, 265, 278,
281–282, 283, 285, 286, 383,
445
commentary on 383
Keats, John 515, 537
Kierkegaard, Søren 262, 265, 266,
287
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 482
Kolakowski, Leszek 297
Kolnai, Aurel 177–179, 180, 181,
184, 186, 198, 201, 207–212,
518, 521
Kraynak, Robert P. 247
commentary on 83–88
Kummer, Helmut 148
Kurzweil, Raymond 159