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The Confucian Personhood and Informed Consent
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dc.contributor.author | Tsai, Daniel Fu Chang | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-06T04:29:21Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-11-06T04:29:21Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 철학사상, Vol.18, pp. 77-110 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1226-7007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/11330 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Informed consent has been a core value, even a symbol,
endorsed by modern Western medical ethics in a narrow sense and bioethics in a broad sense. Respecting the wishes of the patients more than merely amounting concern for their welfare has become the feature central to certain modern bioethics theories. Seeing patients as persons, who are rational, self-conscious beings capable of valuing their own life hence are entitled the liberty and rights to choose for themselves, is in general the backbone of the modern bioethical principles and the ethical rule of informed consent. Nevertheless, whether informed consent is agreeable to an Eastern ethos and can be applied transculturally have been a focus of debates and an interest of cross-cultural bioethical dialogue. Since Confucian philosophy has long been one representative of East-Asia cultural tradition, to examine the concept of informed consent through reflecting upon Confucius idea of personhood may shed some light to the current debates at stake. The author agues Confucius' concept of persons, which is best interpreted by his theories of chun-tze (the morally ideal person) encapsulating a twodimensional approach (the autonomous person and the relational person), provides a more comprehensive model regarding what a person is and how he should be treated. This two-dimensional approach sees a person not only as a rational, autonomous agent but also as a relational, altruistic identity whose self-actualisation involves incessant participating in and promoting of the welfare of his fellow persons. The concept of informed consent, being scrutinized under the light of the Confucian two-dimensional personhood, appears to be bleak, detaching, and endorsing merely a politically correct procedualism. It suffices to be a beginning or a minimal requirement of a meaningful physician-patient interaction, yet a satisfactory and fulfilling one must incorporate the other-regarding morality of interdependence and altruism which is an indispensable trait of the Confucian personhood. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | 서울대학교 철학사상연구소 | - |
dc.subject | Confucian ethics | - |
dc.title | The Confucian Personhood and Informed Consent | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | 철학사상 | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 110 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 77-110 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 77 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 18 | - |
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