Resolution of Issues Related to Proxy Decision Making

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Abstract

The content of this brief final chapter has been organized around two goals. First, the critique of mainstream accounts of proxy decision making and the minimal-risk controversy, both previously discussed, will be revisited in the light of the fundamental principles of objective morality as laid out by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. These principles relate to the objective human good and aim at the protection of human dignity. As such they include objective truth, in particular absolute moral norms prohibiting intrinsically evil acts, together with conscience and virtue. While enlarging upon these principles, I will also refer to a number of major consent-related issues that impair both the human-rights documents and some of the analyses of informed consent addressed in previous chapters. In doing so, I will also provide a brief summary highlighting major moral issues detected in the course of this study.

Keywords

Human Dignity Common Good Moral Truth Proxy Consent Objective Morality 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Dominican College of Philosophy and TheologyKrakówPoland

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