PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA

THE NATURE AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE. THE CHALLENGES OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIII ASSEMBLY

OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE

(Vatican City, 25-27 February, 2002)

Edited by

JUAN DE DIOS VIAL CORREA and ELIO SGRECCIA

LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA

00120 CITTA' DEL VATICANO

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Presentation (Prof. JUAN DE DIOS VIAL CORREA and ELIO SGRECCIA)

 

Discourse of the Holy Father, JOHN PAUL II

 

Final Communiqué

 

 

CONTRIBUTION OF THE TASK-FORCE

 

H.E. Mgr.. JULIÁN HERRANZ, The dignity of the human person and the law.

 

Rev. F.  ANDRZEJ SZOSTEK, The anthropological issue: does absolute truth about the human being exist?

 

Prof. WOLFGANG WALDSTEIN, The ability of human mind to know the natural law.

 

Prof. SERGIO BELARDINELLI, "Nature" in a cosmological, biological, anthropological and ecological sense.

 

Prof. JOHN FINNIS, Nature and natural law in the contemporary philosophical and theological debates: some observations.

 

Rev. F. CHARLES MOREROD, Nature and natural law in Catholicism and Protestantism.

 

Rev. MARTIN RHONHEIMER, Natural moral law: moral knowledge and conscience.The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity.

 

Prof. FRANCESCO VIOLA, Natural law: stability and development of its contents.

 

Prof. FRANCESCO D'AGOSTINO, Natural law, positive law and the new provocations of bioethics.

 

Prof. JOSEPH SEIFERT, The right to life and the fourfold root of human dignity.

 

Prof. MARIA DOLORES VILA- CORO, The rights of man and the right to life.

 

S.E.R. Mgr. CARLO CAFFARRA, Natural law: marriage and procreation.

 

 

 

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