VITAL PROSTHESES: KILLING, LETTING DIE, AND THE ETHICS OF DE‐IMPLANTATION

Bioethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Aas
Keyword(s):  
Letting Die

Killing by Letting Die

Mind ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol XC (357) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
BART GRUZALSKI
Keyword(s):  
Letting Die

Letting Die by Contract

2011 ◽  
pp. 188-209
Author(s):  
Gerhard Øverland
Keyword(s):  
Letting Die

Letting Die by Contract

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Øverland
Keyword(s):  
Letting Die

Dead Labor, Homo Sacer, and Letting die in the Labor Market

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Tyner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Negative Rights ◽  
Moral Distinction ◽  
Letting Die

Within philosophy, a long-standing debate has addressed the moral distinction between ‘taking life’ and ‘letting die’. In this paper I re-situate this debate within the context of the capitalist labor market. Drawing on insights from both Marx and Agamben, I re-theorize the figure of figure of homo sacer as a (potentially) dead laborer to argue that an ideology of ‘letting die’ is systemic to capitalism; however, our legal, spiritual, and moral values, and the privileging of ‘negative rights’, continue to promote the belief that killing is morally worse.

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