quinta-feira, 14 de junho de 2012

Joseph Raz: "Death in our Life"

O filósofo Joseph Raz disponibilizou sua Annual Lectures for the Society for Applied Philosophy, sobre a eutanásia, em seus aspectos morais e legais. 


Death in our Life


Would widespread acceptance of a right to voluntary euthanasia lead to widespread changes in attitude to life and death? Many of its advocates deny that seeing it as a narrow right enabling people to avoid ending their life in great pain or total dependence, or a vegetative state. I argue that the right cannot cogently be conceived as a narrow right, confined to very limited circumstances. It is based on the value of having the normative power to choose time and manner of one’s death. recognition will be accompanied by far reaching changes in culture and attitude, and these changes will enrich people’s life by enabling themto integrate their death as part of  their lives