THIS COURSE HAS CONCLUDED. THE FOLLOWING LESSONS ARE PRE-RECORDED VIDEOS FROM THE SUMMER OF 2021.
Week One: Thomistic Foundations of Ethical and Natural Law Theory (6/2)
Readings:
Eberl Thomistic Principles and Bioethics Chapter 1
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24075
ST, Ia.29.1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1029.htm#article1
SCG, II.68
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles2.htm#68
ST, Ia.75.4
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1075.htm#article4
ST, Ia-IIae.91.1-2
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm#article1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm#article2
ST, IIa-IIae.64.7
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3064.htm#article7
Week Two: Bioethical Issues at the Beginning of Human Life (6/9)
Readings:
Eberl Thomistic Principles and Bioethics Chapters 2 and 4
SCG II 57
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles2.htm#57
SCG II 59
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles2.htm#59
ST IIa-IIae. 43.1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3043.htm#article1
ST IIa-IIae. 154.2
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3154.htm#article2
Week Three: Bioethical Issues at the End of Human Life (6/16)
Readings:
Eberl Thomistic Principles and Bioethics Chapters 3 and 5
ST IIa-IIae. 65.1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3065.htm#article1
ST IIa-IIae. 126.1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3126.htm#article1
SCG III. 112
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles3b.htm#112
ST IIa-IIae. 61.1
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3061.htm#article1
ST IIa-IIae. 26.5
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3026.htm#article5
Week Four: Looking Forward Bioethics in the 21st Century (6/23)
“The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives” by Leon Kass in Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002), pp. 119-41.
Michael Parker, “The Best Possible Child.” Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (2007): 79-83.
Jason Eberl. “A Thomistic Appraisal of Human Enhancement Technologies.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35: 289-310.
Leon Kass, “The Case for Mortality,” The American Scholar 52 (1983): 173-91.
Peter Augustine Lawler, “Restless Souls,” The New Atlantis 4 (2004): 42-46.
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