Euthanasia as an issue in ethics of social consequences?

Author:

Kalajtzidis Ján1

Affiliation:

1. University of Prešov ( Slovakia )

Abstract

Abstract The main aim of the presented paper is to look for an answer as to whether and how euthanasia reflected is in ethics of social consequences. Ethics of social consequences is a contemporary Slovak ethical theory with an original approach to delimitating moral agency. The paper puts this definition to the test while considering the main focus of the paper – responding to the question of whether euthanasia and end of life can be understood as a moral uncertainty. The intention is to find out whether the definition is clear and adequate to withstand the basic arguments against euthanasia. Since ethics of social consequences is a consequentialist ethical theory, another partial goal is to analyse the fitness of such a position to be used in bioethical inquires.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Health Policy,Philosophy,Education

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