@article{ART001401804},
author={Kwon, Hyeok-Nam},
title={A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”},
journal={Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association},
issn={1598-0324},
year={2009},
volume={10},
number={2},
pages={35-47}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kwon, Hyeok-Nam
TI - A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”
JO - Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association
PY - 2009
VL - 10
IS - 2
PB - The Korean Bioethics Association
SP - 35
EP - 47
SN - 1598-0324
AB - This article presents Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom” as a important theological insight in the
euthanasia debate. Häring has anticipated the inadequacy of various arguments against euthanasia and has
seen the need for Catholic theology to articulate an argument drawn directly from its own theological
sources. As a renewal of Catholic moral theology, Häring’s work is significant in its use of freedom and
fidelity as primary virtues which define the goal of moral agency. Häring’s argument has a certain advantage
for the purpose of christian moral theology, the main advantage being that it explicitly engages the question
of suffering and human freedom and provides a context within which the moral meaning of suffering can be
discussed. Häring suggests that a convincing argument against euthanasia can only be made in the
“perspective of freedom.” Häring’s work shows how issues in medical ethics may be evaluated by assessing
their impact on freedom. In his moral theology the maximization of freedom is used as a point of reference.
Häring argues that human freedom must respect the meaning of creaturely finitude, and that the realm of
human freedom, stewardship, and dominion cannot extend to control over death and mortality. Euthanasia,
Häring argues, is wrong because it aborts the meaning of human life and freedom. Freedom, he indicates,
can have meaning in the acceptance of death but not in the control of death.
KW - Bernhard Häring;medical ethics;freedom;illness;death
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Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. (2009). A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”. Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association, 10(2), 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. 2009, "A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”", Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association, vol.10, no.2 pp.35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam "A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”" Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association 10.2 pp.35-47 (2009) : 35.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”. 2009; 10(2), 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. "A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”" Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association 10, no.2 (2009) : 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”. Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association, 10(2), 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”. Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association. 2009; 10(2) 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”. 2009; 10(2), 35-47.
Kwon, Hyeok-Nam. "A Study on Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Perspective of Bioethics: Focusing on Bernhard Häring’s “Perspective of Freedom”" Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association 10, no.2 (2009) : 35-47.