Christian Perspective of the Nature of Spirituality and Ethics

Worldview Analysis and Personal Inventory
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Worldview Analysis and Personal Inventory
Christian Perspective of the Nature of Spirituality and Ethics in Contrast to Postmodern Relativism Perspective in Healthcare
Many individuals think that ethics involves making choices related to doing the right thing and avoiding wrong. The decision-making process mainly entails a shared set of canons, including justice, autonomy, and beneficence in bioethics. Christianity’s bioethics perspective relates to the Ten Commandments, the Golden rule, and the Great Commandment of love. These Christian perspectives work concurrently to avoid adverse consequences as well as presumes the duty and obligation for an ethical position in terms of the ramifications and principles that influence the final choice. Christian spirituality suggests a commitment to God, revealed through Jesus Christ, as the end and source of love. In that vein, Christians assume responsibility for others, themselves, and the world, including taking care of patients (Gula, 2000). Therefore, the Christianity perspective shapes the way a believer views handles other human beings since it shapes how they see everything and informs them how to integrate their life’s fragments into a meaningful whole. Christian spirituality prompts its adherents to have compassions for the sick and show mercy to those in pan and suffering, thus informing patient management within health care environments.
On the other hand, believers in the postmodern relativism perspective embrace the argument that factual issues should be attributed to invention rather than discovery. Truth does not exist within postmodern relativism. Its proponents believe that a given act could be termed as permissible or wrong by considering the context and factors at hand. For instance, abortion or murder could be viewed as morally right or wrong in certain circumstances and deemed feasible to other contexts. That said, postmodernism proponents consider human beings as equal to other animals or rather living things. In that vein, human beings should be handled just the same way other living things are handled (Forghani, Keshtiaray, & Yousefy, 2015). Therefore, it is increasingly challenging to apply postmodern relativism within healthcare practice, given its questionable principles.
Scientism Definition and Arguments Against It
Scientism is defined as an “over-enthusiastic and uncritically deferential attitude towards science, an inability to see or an unwillingness to acknowledge its fallibility, its limitations, and its potential dangers” (Hietanen et al., 2020). Most descriptions of scientism typically consider this definition, in one approach or the other, as exceeding the appropriate scientific limits. Therefore, scientism is mainly viewed as amounting to an unjustified and unwarranted belief in natural sciences in specific ways.
The first objection to scientism is centered on the concept’s false or dilemma. This argument is anchored on the objection that scientific evidence is relying on non-scientific grounds. For example, it is suggested that some fundamental metaphysical assumptions, including the presupposition of other minds or ex...