Reasons and the Fear of Death
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2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-1276-4 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-1276-4 (ISBN)
This books contends that fear of death lies at the basis of reasoning and shows why people must be co-operating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting. Within the context of this account, this book offers an understanding of brain death and of physician-assisted suicide.
Death, violent or otherwise, is a matter of widespread concern with ongoing debates about such matters as euthanasia and the nature of brain death. Philosophers have often argued about the rationality of fear of death. This book argues that that dispute has been misconceived: fear of death is not something that follows or fails to follow from reason, but rather, it forms the basis of reasoning and helps to show why people must be cooperating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting. Within the context of this account of reasons, the book gives a new understanding of brain death and of physician-assisted suicide.
Death, violent or otherwise, is a matter of widespread concern with ongoing debates about such matters as euthanasia and the nature of brain death. Philosophers have often argued about the rationality of fear of death. This book argues that that dispute has been misconceived: fear of death is not something that follows or fails to follow from reason, but rather, it forms the basis of reasoning and helps to show why people must be cooperating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting. Within the context of this account of reasons, the book gives a new understanding of brain death and of physician-assisted suicide.
R. E. Ewin is professor of philosophy at the University of Western Australia in Nedlands and the author of Virtues and Rights: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (Westview) and Liberty, Community, and Justice (Rowman & Littlefield).
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Reason and the Fear of Death Chapter 3 Concepts and Their Formal Elements Chapter 4 Evolution and Ethics Chapter 5 Concepts, Rationality, and Death Chapter 6 What Is Death? Chapter 7 The Reasonableness of Assisting Death Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.3.2002 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 268 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7425-1276-2 / 0742512762 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7425-1276-4 / 9780742512764 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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