THE DANGERS OF EUTHANASIA AND DEMENTIA: HOW KANTIAN THINKING MIGHT BE USED TO SUPPORT NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA IN CASES OF EXTREME DEMENTIA

Some writers have argued that a Kantian approach to ethics can be used to justify suicide in cases of extreme dementia, where a patient lacks the rationality required of Kantian moral agents. I worry that this line of thinking may lead to the more extreme claim that euthanasia is a proper Kantian re...

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Main Author: Sharp, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
In: Bioethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 5, Pages: 231-235
Further subjects:B Deontology
B Assisted Suicide
B rational agents
B Bioethics
B non-voluntary
B Suicide
B Dementia
B Euthanasia
B Kant
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