Etička pitanja globalnog demokratskog društva
Ethical Issues of Global Democratic Society

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the author discusses global market culture, based on a virtual society, which introduced new items in the life of the world and the human. It shows clearly how far development of human have reached in its progessive aspirations and possibili ties. But, such a culture of virtual society has something destructive in itself, something violent, so that moral life becomes disoriented, because no safe foundation have left on which morality and moral consciousness should be formed. That fact causes a series of ethical and bioethical issues concerning the survival. The whole groups of people were challenged, the others are threatened, but religious awareness of responsibility for life and development of the world and the human, grows permanently. This could be noticed from John Paul's II encyclical letter Evangelium vitae, which is dedicated to development, preservation and evaluation of life, and which called nowadays culture, »the culture of death«. He invites all Christians and people with good will to decisevely fight for life in this world. This condition of development of the world and the human has not remain unknown in human history, because it has been crowded with violence and wars, but also with growing awareness and making sense in life and action. Through the history, the weaknesses and power of human freedom- if it is considered in its entirety- can be seen perfectly. So, even nowadays, a new hope in the possibility of reform and survival have to be born, which is the big task of bioethics. Hope – precisely in the deep of despair- has its right meaning and its necessity. It belongs to the order of Being, the order of Mercy of quest and receiving, so it can provide the living where we are, and how we are. Such a hope was different in a different periods of humankind. It shines with more brightness if it flies on the wings of religion, i.e. Christianity.

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