Avant-propos - Studia Moralia

12 SUMMARIES / RESÚMENES
JOHN BERKMAN
THE MORALITY OF ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYOS
IN LIGHT OF DONUM VITAE
In the light of the moral principles and fundamental goods articulated
by Donum vitae, one may conclude that under some circumstances
it is appropriate and even morally praiseworthy for women to
allow themselves to be impregnated with abandoned frozen embryos,
gestating and raising them as their children. Under appropriate circumstances,
such a decision is legitimately seen, not as surrogacy, but
as a form of “adoption,” and as such can give witness to a profound
form of Christian hospitality.
A la luz de los principios de la moral y de los bienes fundamentales
expresados en la Donum vitae, se puede concluir que bajo ciertas circunstancias
es apropiado e incluso moralmente encomiable para las mujeres
permitir la implantación en su propio útero de embriones congelados
abandonados, gestándolos y criándolos como hijos suyos. Bajo determinadas
circunstancias, una decisión de este tipo es percibida como lícita, no
como “subrogación” (surrogacy), sino como una forma de “adopción”, y
como tal puede testimoniar una forma profunda de hospitalidad cristiana.
EDMUND KOWALSKI
L’UOMO PASTORE DELL’ESSERE
E L’ETICA DELL’INCONTRO
The article highlights two dimensions of being human and being a
person in the philosophical and anthropological thought of G. Marcel:
the ontological and the ethical. These are studied with a view to
attempting to suggest some hermeneutical implications for contemporary
bioethical reflection. As regards bios, the French scholar suggests
the personalist-existentialist approach, with an ontological-ethical
(logos) and an ethico-relational (ethos) connotation, as the most suitable
ground for testing interpretative and argumentary capacities in
face of new problems in bioethics. Recognising all the transcendental
dimensions of being human and of being a person, in the existential
experience of bios-logos-ethos (that is to say in the dynamic unity of
one’s own “being more”, in relation to God, to others and to the world),
guarantees the dignity of the person in the full sense of the term.