The Necessary Hedonism of Disenchantment: Analysis of the Disenchantment of the Universe with Particular Attention to Medicine and Theology

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dc.contributor.advisorHoy, William G.
dc.contributor.authorFahnestock, Abby
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.contributor.otherJason Whitten_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-24T23:16:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-24T23:16:21Z
dc.date.copyright2017
dc.date.issued2017-05-24
dc.description.abstractModern medicine claims to be something it is not: morally neutral. Thus advancements made in the field of biotechnology are hailed and welcomed as the natural order. They are refused questions of morality because the endeavor is understood as amoral. Specific attention is paid to the advancements of physician-assisted suicide and eugenics within the practice of medicine. Throughout this discourse I propose the impossibility of any morally neutral practice, specifically medicine, following the disenchantment of the world. Insofar as the materialist morality is one of hedonism, medicine is directed toward the end of the uncensored elimination of suffering and the expansion of autonomy. I seek to understand how a Christian ought faithfully engage in the practice of medicine, given its secular end. Through this discourse I ultimately call the Church to a richer understanding of her role in medicine, to her role in the life of those suffering.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/9982
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectDisenchantment.en_US
dc.subjectDisenchantment of medicine.en_US
dc.subjectScientific revolution.en_US
dc.subjectMedicine and the church.en_US
dc.subjectModern moral imperative.en_US
dc.subjectModern hedonism.en_US
dc.titleThe Necessary Hedonism of Disenchantment: Analysis of the Disenchantment of the Universe with Particular Attention to Medicine and Theologyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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