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Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate /
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: the sacred part
- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction
- Dignity and sanctity
- Dignity and sovereignty
- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant
- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate
- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant
- Sacrifice and the right to die
- A debate deconstructed.