Çalışmamızda Heidegger’in ontolojik olarak ele aldığı vicdanın Dasein için nasıl mümkünlük alanı olduğunu izah etmeye çalıştık. Heidegger, kendinden önceki düşünürlerden ayrışarak ahlak temelli bir vicdan analizi yerine perspektifle onu almaya çalışmıştır. Ona göre fırlatılmışlık içerisinde dünyaya fırlatılan hissettiği kaygı ve belirsizlik nedeniyle herkes-benliğine sığınırken kendi sahih olan...

“Conscience clause” legislation has proliferated in recent years, extending the legal rights of health care professionals to cite their personal religious or moral beliefs as a reason to opt out of performing specific procedures or caring for particular patients. Physicians can refuse to perform abortions or in vitro fertilization. Nurses can refuse to aid in end-of-life care. Pharmacists can r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is no literature consensus about the time of airway occlusion sufficient enough to get a true PImax during weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV). So, the main objectives of the present study were to compare two methods PImax measurement and to evaluate the influence of patients' level of conscience on them. METHODS The population was composed by 28 general I...

In a climate of plurality about the concept of what is "good," one of the most daunting challenges facing contemporary medicine is the provision of medical care within the mosaic of ethical diversity. Juxtaposed with escalating scientific knowledge and clinical prowess has been the concomitant erosion of unity of thought in medical ethics. With innumerable technologies now available in the arma...

The objective of this paper is to examine the Pauline understanding of conscience, with the view of gaining an inspiration from it for the contemporary discussion on the foundations of the Christian ethics. The meaning Paul attaches to it depends on the context (mainly in Rom and 1 and 2 Cor), ranging from the personal to the communal one. Conscience holds the secrets of human hearts, evaluates...