کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
100839 1422290 2013 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Moral individualism and elective death
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی پزشکی قانونی
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Moral individualism and elective death
چکیده انگلیسی

Moral individualism (Brooks, 2011 and Smith, 2011) is a contemporary interpretation of morality as entirely a matter of personal choice. It is a popular rather than theory-based interpretation and has a number of social generative sources related to present-day preoccupation with individuality and personal distinctiveness. A key generative source is popularization of postmodernism, which prioritizes self-reinvention and provides moral individualism with the appearance of intellectual legitimacy. Moral individualism is a deeply flawed misconception of morality because it abolishes moral communality. My concern in this paper is that in doing so, it seriously jeopardizes productive discussion of the moral permissibility of elective death or choosing to die in despairingly and dire circumstances.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - Volume 36, Issues 5–6, September–December 2013, Pages 471–476
نویسندگان
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