Transcript Panel Discussion: Multi-Faith Perspectives on Dignity of the Human

Panel Discussion: Multi-Faith
Perspectives on Dignity of the
Human Person
Panel Discussion: Human Person
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Islamic
Buddhist
Christian
Aboriginal Traditionalist
Hindu
Various Ways to “Group”
Participants…
• Which participant choose to present in
distinctive religious “dress”?
• Which participants actually performed
some particular religious ritual as part of
presentation?
• Which participants relied heavily on
scriptural/holy books?
Various Ways to “Group”
Participants…
More abstractly…
Given all participants seemed to want to promote some
version of respect for the human person, what did they
propose as a way of achieving this from their unique
religious vantage point…
• was their a transcendent being central to their
outlook/presentation?
• was their emphasis on human commonality or on need
to respect diversity?
• was their emphasis a matter of looking outward or
looking inward?
• did they tend toward pragmatic or idealistic solutions?