Między kulturą życia a kulturą śmierci

• Authors: Zdunowski Zbigniew

Title variants

EN

On the culture of life and (anti)culture of death

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary moral discussions are a place of increasing struggles between the supporters of subjective and objective approaches to ethics. According to the first standpoint the values are based on the nature of the real beings. The second point of view declares that ethical norms and moral values depend on free decisional acts of every human being or on the will of majority. A false understanding of freedom is responsible for the loss of human dignity nowadays. If our freedom does not stem from the objective truth about the good, the civilization of life will soon completely change into the civilization of death. Its signs are e.g. legal permission for abortion, euthanasia, consent for suicides etc. It is necessary to remind there is no right to death. Therefore, politicians should remember it is impossible to unite Europe with the right of killing any kind of people. We have to believe that the power of life is stronger than (anti)culture of death with its tendency to nihilism.

Keywords

PL

kultura życia; nauczanie Kościoła; kultura śmierci; obiektywizm w etyce

• Publisher: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi/Archidiecezjalne Wydawnictwo Łódzkie
• Journal: Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 339-348

Contributors

author

Zdunowski Zbigniew

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