Novak David
Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada.
Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2003 Dec;13(4):313-28. doi: 10.1353/ken.2004.0009.
An analysis of traditional Jewish texts yields neither the capitalist notion of medicine nor the socialist one. Neither alternative is sufficient to ground the respect for the sanctity of the human person as a being created in the image of God that is so rationally appealing. That is why the Jewish ethical tradition, which is based on this respect for the sanctity of human personhood, both individual and collective, is so attractive--if only for its insights, rather than its authority; its guidance, rather than its governance.
对传统犹太文本的分析既未产生资本主义的医学观念，也未产生社会主义的医学观念。这两种观念都不足以作为对作为按上帝形象所造之人的神圣性的尊重的基础，而这种尊重在理性上是如此具有吸引力。这就是为什么基于对个人和集体的人类人格神圣性的尊重的犹太伦理传统如此有吸引力——如果仅仅是因其见解，而非其权威性；因其指引，而非其统治。
