Playing God? Synthetic Biology from a Protestant Perspective*
Living organisms can be seen from two different perspectives: From an observer’s perspective, the researcher is looking to find and describe properties that characterize them, and from a participant’s perspective, a human recognizes its vis-à-vis as an equally living and intention pursuing subject....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2013
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| Dans: |
Worldviews
Année: 2013, Volume: 17, Numéro: 1, Pages: 48-59 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Life
creator God
observer’s perspective
participant’s perspective
ethics
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | Living organisms can be seen from two different perspectives: From an observer’s perspective, the researcher is looking to find and describe properties that characterize them, and from a participant’s perspective, a human recognizes its vis-à-vis as an equally living and intention pursuing subject. From a Protestant perspective, a third way of looking at it is introduced. Believing in God as the primordial “I,” Christians confess to “You-ness” as their primordial and existential condition, enabling them not only to enter a relationship to other’ you-ness’, but to recognize God’s great “I” in every drop of creation. The ethics of dealing with living organisms, including the human-made organisms of synthetic biology, then is a question of norms and principles but of an attitude of responsiveness, respect and love. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contient: | In: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-01701005 |