The 'Good Conscience' of Nazi Doctors
| Autor: | Zukowski E |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Religion and Psychology
Psychoanalysis Eugenics World War II media_common.quotation_subject Sadistic personality disorder Poison control Nazism Computer security computer.software_genre Suicide prevention law.invention law Germany Physicians Injury prevention Humans Medicine History of Medicine Ethical Relativism Conscience Defense Mechanisms media_common Social Responsibility Holocaust business.industry Catholicism Retrospective Moral Judgment General Medicine History 20th Century Human Rights Abuses Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation Protestantism Euthanasia Active National Socialism Guilt CLARITY Theology War Crimes Form of the Good Professional Misconduct business Sterilization Involuntary computer |
| Zdroj: | The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics. 14:53-82 |
| ISSN: | 0732-4928 |
| Popis: | Popular imagination would have it that all these doctors were sadistic monsters or psychopaths. Indeed, some were. Others, however, were not only judged by experts not to have been mentally unbalanced, but also actually claimed to have acted according to "good conscience" and "with the best of intentions." In some cases, they attempted ethical justification for their actions. These claims of "good conscience" raise interesting questions about subjective guilt: Could they possibly have been sincere? If not, why? If they were, under what conceivable conditions could this happen, and what would be their subjective moral status? In 1929, Arthur Vermeesch described subjective guilt as one of the greatest challenges to the modern moralist.1 At the end of this century a number of theologians have complained that the concepts of guilt and responsibility are still "lacking in clarity,"2 used equivocally by various Christian ethicists,3 and in need of more adequate exploration in many |
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