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On the puzzling value of human life

Published:2017-12-01 Issue:3-4 Volume:7 Page:155-168
ISSN:2453-7829
Container-title:Ethics & Bioethics
language:en
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Author:

Cicovacki Predrag¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Philosophy , College of the Holy Cross , Worcester , MA 01610 , USA .

Abstract

Abstract The author examines our conflicting attitudes regarding the proper value of human life. While the main issue initially appears to deal with whether or not human life has an intrinsic (or absolute) value, it turns out that a far more important and complex issue concerns the tension between the equal value of every human life and the differences in the quality of one’s life. The author discusses the views of Kant, Schweitzer, Berlin, Scheler, and then Hartmann, in whose views the author recognizes the most important contributions to this puzzle.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Health Policy,Philosophy,Education

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