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The indispensability of quality of life
1Universitat Duisburg-Essen.
Abstract:
Is a value-judgement of human quality of life permissible, especially in view of the possibility of wishing to intentionally terminate this human life? In German bio-politics, this issue tends to be evaded. Problems that increasingly arise at the end as well as the beginning of a human life, however, render the discussion inevitable. In this context, the assumption that, as a matter of principle, judging the value of quality of life is incompatible with the concept of human dignity plays a central part. This premise would indicate that bio-ethical and bio-political debate threatens to revert to a state of rigid confrontation of factions that are both inflexible and unable to communicate.
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