Akzeptierte Abhängigkeit

The theologian and physician Dietrich Rössler interprets the current ethical debates as discourses on the understanding of human beings and the reality of their lives. He sees the present moral pluralism as an expression of varying life concepts. It is not the abolition but rather the human configuration of pluralism which is the goal of his ethics of compromise. It is the situation in which a physician has to take action which exemplifies the ethical challenge of the present: What is concerned here is the preservation and creation of humanity in a science- and technology-oriented civilization. The author shows the contrast between the anthropological category of the totality of man and the dogmatic and scientific reductions of the concept of man. In the perception and portrayal of this totality there is at the same time a religious attitude and the Protestant signature of an ethics of humanity.