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" Playing God? Synthetic Biology from a Protestant Perspective "
Christina Aus der Au
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AL
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1085952
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LA129581
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10.1163/15685357-01701005
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English
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Christina Aus der Au
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Playing God? Synthetic Biology from a Protestant Perspective [Article]\ Christina Aus der Au
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Leiden: Brill
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Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
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2013
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17/1
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48–59
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Living organisms can be seen from two different perspectives: From an observer’s perspective, the researcher is looking to find and describe properties that characterize them, and from a participant’s perspective, a human recognizes its vis-à-vis as an equally living and intention pursuing subject. From a Protestant perspective, a third way of looking at it is introduced. Believing in God as the primordial “I,” Christians confess to “You-ness” as their primordial and existential condition, enabling them not only to enter a relationship to other’ you-ness’, but to recognize God’s great “I” in every drop of creation. The ethics of dealing with living organisms, including the human-made organisms of synthetic biology, then is a question of norms and principles but of an attitude of responsiveness, respect and love. Living organisms can be seen from two different perspectives: From an observer’s perspective, the researcher is looking to find and describe properties that characterize them, and from a participant’s perspective, a human recognizes its vis-à-vis as an equally living and intention pursuing subject. From a Protestant perspective, a third way of looking at it is introduced. Believing in God as the primordial “I,” Christians confess to “You-ness” as their primordial and existential condition, enabling them not only to enter a relationship to other’ you-ness’, but to recognize God’s great “I” in every drop of creation. The ethics of dealing with living organisms, including the human-made organisms of synthetic biology, then is a question of norms and principles but of an attitude of responsiveness, respect and love.
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creator God
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ethics
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life
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observer’s perspective
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participant’s perspective
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10.1163/15685357-01701005
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