SMRŤ ČLOVEKA Z AXIOLOGICKEJ PERSPEKTÍVY. MYŠLIENKOVÉ EXPERIMENTY

• Authors: Juraj Čáp

Title variants

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Man´s death from an axiological perspective: Thought experiments

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The analysis draws on Nagel´s deprivation theory and Feldman´s theory of possible worlds. These are supplemented with a specific context of feeling happy or suffering in the face of death as well as various forms of believing in life after death. Six logically possible answers have been tested via thought experiments which showed that the question of whether death means good, evil or is indifferent to a man cannot be in general answered from the first person perspective. The answer always depends on the particular context, i. e. on the man’s beliefs and hopes. Thus the article offers one possible axiological perspective from which death can be viewed in the context of dying with dignity, committing suicide or carrying out euthanasia.

Keywords

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DEATH; DYING; AXIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 94 – 106

Contributors

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Juraj Čáp

• Jesseniova lekárska fakulta v Martine, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Slovak Republic