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Pavadinimas: ENDING LIVES
Autoriai: ROBERT CAMPBELL DIANE COLLINSON
Metai: 1988
ISBN: 0-631-15329-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202160
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     Ending lives addresses the sensitive and complex questions of suicide and euthanasia. It examines the apparent contradiction that those who in general terms hold killing people to be wrong may well believe suicide and euthanasia to be morally justifiable, even though both are cases of killing people. This in turn raises questions about the nature of suicide and euthanasia, the value of life and the morality of the way it is ended.



Preface viii
Introduction ix
Chapter One The nature of suicide 1
1 Conceptual distinctions 1
2 Intention 2
3 What counts suicide? 4
4 Did Socrates commit suicide? 8
5 Knowledge of intentions 12
6 “Revenge” suicide 15
7 The moral issues 16
8 Suicide and the law 17
9 The historical dimension 18
Chapter Two The historical debate on suicide 21
1 Suicide defended 21
2 Biathanatos 25
3 Suicide not against nature 26
4 Suicide not against nature 28
5 Suicide not against God 30
6 A judgement on life 31
7 David Hume on suicide 32
8 Hume on duties to others and ourselves 35
9 The new standpoint 36
10 Classical utilitarianism and suicide: Bentham and Mill 39
11 Changes of attitude 40
12 Liberty and suicide 42
13 Inadequacies of utilitarianism 44
14 Suicide and the legal debate 47
15 Coroners 51
Chapter Three Life, death and the absurd 55
1 Schopenhauer on suicide 55
2 The will-in-itself 56
3 Denial of the will: salvation 58
4 Criticism and comments 60
5 Suicide and the meaning of life 61
6 The myth of Sisyphus 64
7 Two kinds of suicide 65
8 The framework of Camus`s thought 66
9 Rebellion and truth 68
10 Thomas Nagel and the absurd 70
Chapter Four Existentialism and suicide 76
1 From absurdity to existence 76
2 Existential freedom 79
3 The philosophical underpinning 81
4 Morality and existential suicide 84
5 “The radical decision” 88
6 “Bad faith” and anguish 90
7 Good faith 94
8 The Sartrean point of view 96
Chapter Five Morality and suicide 104
1 Existentialism considered 104
2 Being and doing 107
3 Amoral self 110
4 Reflecting on suicide 112
5 A natural metaphysics 113
6 Dying well 116
Chapter Six Killing and letting die 121
1 Euthanasia: definitions and distinctions 121
2 An historical and legal note 124
3 “Nursing care only” 129
4 “Active and passive euthanasia” 131
5 Some problems with Rachels 136
6 What is the distinction? 140
7 Intention and negative responsibility 143
Chapter Seven Extraordinary means and double effects 153
1 The doctrine of double effect 153
2 Extraordinary means 159
3 Grounds for euthanasia 162
Chapter Eight Should the numbers count? 169
1 The ethics of resource allocation 169
2 Numbers 175
3 Collectivism and individualism 184
4 Conclusion 190
Index 195

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