Starożytna debata nad statusem moralnym aborcji. Polemika pogańska i chrześcijańska – część II
The ancient debate over the moral status of abortion. Pagan and Christian Polemics - Part II

Summary/Abstract: The publication explains the term “moral status of abortion,” the phenomenon and history of abortion (Egypt, Babylon, Israel, Iran, China, Greece, and Rome), and the moral approach to the subject by Pagans and Christians in antiquity (Amenhotep IV – Akhenaten, Aeschylus, Aristotle, Lysias, Ovid, Philo, Plato, Plutarch, Hippocrates, Cicero, Diogenes, Empedocles, Galen, Seneca, Virgil, Scribonius Largus, Theodore Priscian, Zeno; Didache, Barnabas, Justin Martyr, Origen, Melito, Tertullian, Chrysostom, Augustine, Theodoret of Cyr). A central thesis of the study is the existence of a philosophically and morally justified “anthropological bridge” between noble pagan intuitions and Christian Revelation. The author argues that pagansages – led by Ovid – acted as “Planets” announcing the true “Light of the World” (John 8:12): Jesus Christ, the God-Man. While paganism relied on an immanent and psychological natural law, Christianity brought a revolutionary civilizational breakthrough. By anchoring human dignity in a transcendent foundation – the Imago Dei (Genesis 1:27) – Christianity granted full human dignity to the child notfrom birth or “animation,” but from the very moment of conception. This “New Teaching” shattered the rocks of human egoism and insensitivity toward the most innocent beings.

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