The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a
number of distinct moral questions and ?nds their answer in the
dignity of the person, both as an agent and as a patient (in the
sense of the recipient of action). Characteristically one's view of
the human being ultimately shapes one's outlook on these matters.
This book addresses questions that divide a culture of life from a
culture of death as well as a number of questions debated within
the Catholic tradition itself. The Edge of Life offers a critique
of the new bio-ethic, represented by such notable authors as Peter
Singer; it also attempts to shore up some of the dif?culties
leveled by critics against the traditional ethic as well as to
answer some questions disputed by those within the tradition. This
book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather
many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of
contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these
matters, see Kaczor 2002). Rather, The Edge of Life seeks to
address a number of disputed contemporary questions touching upon
human dignity at what has been called "the margins of life. " The
?rst section of the book treats the dignity of the human person as
recipient of action and as agent. Chapter two examines various
accounts of when a human being becomes a person.
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