인격주의생명윤리학의 기초로서 인간의 존엄성

The Dignity of Human Being as the Fundament of the Bioethics of Personalism

In this paper I intend to proceed as follows: first of all, we shall understand how every human being is a person(persona; not personality in the meaning of experimental psychology), and therefore we should respect every human being. And then we shall move on to see how we can say that every human being has ontological the status of person. But many people have prejudiced opinion on man and have misunderstood the true meaning of the person. Therefore we have to argue the causes of misunderstandings of the person and we criticize the equivocal meanings of person. In the discussion of those we ask for the status of the person. Someone assert that the status of a person of human being depends on the potentiality, continuity and capability. But all kinds of human being including embryo, the patient in the vegetable state etc. have deficiencies and are really incomplete. Every human being is unconditionally a person, because every human being is born as Imago Dei, though every human being are incomplete. But we can understand( not explain) the person only, when we are loving a human being. because the person present in loving. Consequently to conserve the dignity of human being is the Fundament of the Bioethics of Personalism.