Wisdom and Ethics - The Contribution of Sapiential Ethics for Old Testament Ethics

Statement of the Negative Theory of Ethics in Sadra’s Wisdom

By analyzing the issue of annihilation as the end of moral action, this article pays attention to a new interpretation of Sadra’s mystical moral system. In order to reach his ultimate happiness, man must destroy the degrees of his existence: absence of form, absence of self, and absence of spirit. These steps, which are equivalent to natural death, destruction of the human self and annihilation...

Old ethics: new dilemmas.

MEDICAL ethics may be described as a code of behaviour accepted voluntarily by the profession, as opposed to statutes and regulations imposed by official legislation. In many instances these are synonymous; for example, ethical matters constituting "infamous conduct" have for over a century been guarded by an official body, the General Medical Council. Numerous aspects of medical practice still...

Confidentiality and the ethics of medical ethics.

In this paper we consider the use of cases in medical ethics research and teaching. To date, there has been little discussion about the consent or confidentiality requirements that ought to govern the use of cases in these areas. This is in marked contrast to the requirements for consent to publish cases in clinical journals, or to use personal information in research. There are a number of rea...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Ethics committees and ethics consultants

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...