KNOWING AND BELIEVING: THE DEBATE ABOUT THE NEW REGULATION OF ABORTION
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https://doi.org/10.30827/acfs.v45i0.533Keywords:
abortion, reason, religion, dignity, dialogueAbstract
This essay focuses on the argument which states that only a religious and, therefore, non rational neither publicly relevant reason, can regard unborn foetus endowed with dignity from conception. Trying to clarify what reasoning on ethically controversial issues in a plural society means, it pays close attention to Habermas and Spaemann’s thinking about human life and dignity. The first one proposes in The Future of Human Nature considering unborn life non available, though sometimes violable and calls believers and non believers to collaborate by translating their arguments into public reasons and by opening their minds to the religious world respectively. The second one ponders that only a religious consi- deration of human life guarantees the respect for its dignity, whose fundamentals lie on the distinction between what we are and who we are. The article upholds that a religious reason does not only produce beliefs, but also knowledge and that our democracy needs a free and serious dialogue among believers and non believers.
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