BIOETHICAL THEMATIC APPRECIATION OF HUMAN DYING: DYING IN A CLEFT-STICK OF MEDICAL TECHNICISM AND ONTOANTHROPOLOGICAL “PERSONISM”

Clanak se bavi analizom stanja svijesti o umiranju i smrti u kontekstu suvremene medicinske znanosti i klinicke prakse, s jedne, te suvremene filozofsko-antropološke rasprave o statusu osobe, s druge strane. Clanak u prvom dijelu sinteticki ukazuje na niz uzroka koji su doveli do osiromašenja individualne svijesti o smislu umiranja i smrti u društvu, te o nekim negativnim posljedicama s obzirom na fundamentalno razumijevanje umiranja i smrti. U drugom dijelu se pobliže, mada ne iscrpno, analizira stanje suvremene medicine kao grane prirodne znanosti u sprezi s tehnikom te njezine reperkusije na stanje klinicke lijecnicke prakse. Dvije su glavne reperkusije toga stanja: primat tehnike nad etikom i primat materijalnoga nad duhovnim. Takvo stanje navodi na zakljucak da je na scenu vec nastupila ideologija tehnicizma koja se hrani elementima materijalizma. Treci dio clanka se bavi bioetickim tematiziranjem ljudskog umiranja, a promišljanja se fokusiraju na kriticku analizu negativnih ucinaka radikalnog obracuna s ontološkom cjelovitosti covjeka, raslojavajuci to jedinstvo na biološki i duhovno-eticki element. Ta se pojava sintagmatski naziva ontoantropološki “personizam”, pri cemu pojam “personizma” oznacava oduševljenje osobom u duhu postmodernistickog zaborava metafizike osobe. Kao odgovor na takvu demoliranu ontoantropologiju, koja svoje korijene pruža u humusu ideologije tehnicizma i materijalizma, u nastavku, tj. u cetvrtom dijelu clanka promišlja se o nekim dimenzijama kršcanske vizije covjeka s kojima se pokušava pokrpati ono što je poderano u suvremenim bioetickim raspravama. Vec se jedan pokušaj otkriva kao poticaj za ispravno vrednovanje pristupa umiranju i smrti dostojne covjeka kao osobe, tj. kao jedinstvenog duhovno-tjelesnog bica. Na kraju, umjesto zakljucka, donosi se kratko promišljanje koje upucuje na srž kršcanskog shvacanja umiranja i smrti.The article deals with the analysis of state of awareness of dying and death in the context of contemporary medical science and clinical practice, on the one hand, and contemporary philosophical-anthropological dispute about the status of person, on the other. In the first part, the article synthetically points at a string of reasons that have reduced the individual awareness of sense of dying and death in society. It also presents some negative consequences with regard to fundamental understanding of dying and death. The second part analyses in details, though not fully, the state of contemporary medicine as a branch of natural science operating together with technique and its repercussions for the state of clinical and doctor’s practice. There are two main repercussions of that state: primacy of technique over ethics and primacy of material over spiritual. Such a state leads to conclusion that the ideology of technicism, fed by the elements of materialism, has come on the scene. The third part deals with bioethical thematic appreciation of human dying; reflections focus on critical analysis of negative effects of a radical clash with ontological integrity of man, disintegrating that integrity into biological and spiritual-ethical element. That phenomenon is syntagmaticly called onto-anthropological “personism”, at it the term “personism” means to be delighted by the person in the spirit of post-modern oblivion of the person’s metaphysics. As a response to such a demolished onto-anthropology, which has its roots in the ideology of technicism and materialism, the fourth part talks about some dimensions of Christian vision of man, which is a trial to repair what has been devastated in contemporary bioethical disputes. Though a trial, it is an impulse for a correct approach to dying and death worthy of man as a person, i.e. as a unique spiritual and physical being. In the end, instead of conclusion, a short reflection on the essence of Christian understanding of dying and death is presented