Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics write by James Stacey Taylor. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.
Dead Wrong
Dead Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dead Wrong write by David Boonin. This book was released on 2019-10. Dead Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible for an act to wrongfullyharm a person while they are alive even if the act has no effect on that person's conscious experiences. Second, that if this is so, then frustrating a person's desires is one way to wrongfully harm a person. And third, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person even if the act takesplace after the person is dead. Over the course of the book, Boonin introduces the significance of posthumous harm, deals with each of his three main claims in turn, responds to the objections that might be raised against the book's thesis, and examines some of the ethical implications for issuessuch as posthumous organ and gamete removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves and corpses, and posthumous punishment and restitution.
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death write by James Stacey Taylor. This book was released on 2013-10-03. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The questions that surround death--Is death a harm to the person who dies? Should we be afraid of death? Can the dead be harmed? Can they be wronged?--have been of widespread interest since Classical times. This interest is currently enjoying a renaissance across a broad spectrum of philosophical fields, ranging from metaphysics to bioethics. This volume is the first to bring together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role. The essays in Part I of this volume examine some of the Classical approaches to fundamental metaphysical questions surrounding death, addressing in particular the question of whether a person's death can be a harm to her. The theme of the value of death is continued in Part II, with essays addressing this issue through a more contemporary lens. The essays in Part III address the related but separate issue of whether persons can be harmed by events that occur after they die. Finally, the essays in Part IV apply the metaphysical issues addressed in Parts I through III to various issues in bioethics, including the question of posthumous organ procurement, suicide, and survival after brain injury. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working on these issues today, the essays in this volume showcase the state of the art of both the metaphysics of death and its importance to many areas of applied ethics.
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering and Disremembering the Dead write by Floris Tomasini. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Remembering and Disremembering the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death write by James Stacey Taylor. This book was released on 2013-11. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
