Patterns of reasoning in religious positions on organ donation in Japan and Germany
Keywords
religion and medical ethicsorgan donation
three-level-structure-analysis
Japanese Buddhism
490.15
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This paper examines the positions and patterns of Japanese Buddhist reasoning on organ donation, drawing on an exemplary selection of statements brought forward by Buddhist denominations in the 1990s. It compares the Buddhist positions to the perspective of the Christian churches in Germany on the problem of organ donation, and contrasts the results of the analysis of Buddhist approaches and patterns of reasoning against its Christian counterparts. In conclusion, it is suggested that differences in the patterns of reasoning are one of the reasons for the different degrees of public and political influence that Christian and Buddhist positions achieve to exert. Further, methodological problems of the Buddhist patterns of argumentation as revealed by the analysis of the denominational statements of Japanese Buddhism are addressed, and a recent attempt to resolve these by offering an alternative approach to the topic, is discussed.Date
2011-01Type
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oai:reposit.lib.kumamoto-u.ac.jp:2298/1841168
http://www.eubios.info/EJAIB12011.pdf
Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics
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60
1173-2571
1&2