MORALITY OF EUTHANASIA

• Authors: Greif Adam
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I defend the view that the requested euthanasia of adults is morally permissible and should be legalised; I use an argument from analogy which compares physician-assisted euthanasia with morally less ambiguous and, in my opinion, an acceptable instance of mercy killing. I also respond to several objections that either tries to prove that the instance of mercy killing is not acceptable, or that there is a fundamental difference between these two cases of killing. Furthermore, in the remainder of the paper I defend the moral permissibility and legalisation of euthanasia against several objections that appeared in local disputes on this issue, based on the concepts of the limits of freedom, the slippery slope, and the needlessness of euthanasia.

Keywords

EN

LEGALISATION; MORALITY; EUTHANASIA

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 612 - 634

Contributors

author

Greif Adam

• Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Šafárikovo námestie 6, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26404