我们争论什么 当我们争论死亡时
1Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
The Journal of medicine and philosophy
|May 6, 2024
概括
定义人类死亡需要一个道德框架,而不仅仅是生物的. 这种方法促进了社会同意个人何时失去身体保护的权利.
科学领域:
- 生物伦理学生物伦理学
- 医学哲学 医学哲学
- 法律哲学 法律哲学
背景情况:
- 目前对人类死亡的定义往往依赖于生物停止的纯生物学概念.
- 这种生物定义在多元化背景下努力适应各种社会价值观.
- 之前的伦理框架,如Veatch的,提出了道德化的定义,但需要改进.
研究的目的:
- 在多元社会中批评人类死亡的生物学定义的局限性.
- 提出一种以失去特定道德地位为中心的替代性道德化的死亡定义.
- 将关于死亡的辩论重新定义为讨论何时失去对身体保护的权利要求.
主要方法:
- 哲学论证和概念分析.
- 批评现有的关于确定死亡的文献.
- 与生物伦理学理论的接触,特别是罗伯特·维奇的工作.
主要成果:
- 对于社会共识来说,死亡的生物学定义是不够的.
- 一个以道德为基础的定义,专注于失去重要的道德地位是更合适的.
- 核心辩论应该涉及到对身体功能权利要求的丧失.
结论:
- 人类的死亡应该以道德化的术语来理解,而不仅仅是生物学的术语.
- 关于死亡的社会协议需要一个框架,尊重对化身的不同观点.
- 未来关于死亡决定的讨论应该集中在失去身体保护权的标准上.
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