Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of our Traditional Ethics

Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας ◽

10.12681/sas.586 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 245

Author(s):

Milena Ivanova

Keyword(s):

Peter Singer ◽

Life And Death

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Different approaches to the relationship of life & death (review of articles)

Ethics & Bioethics ◽

10.2478/ebce-2019-0008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1-2) ◽

pp. 87-97

Author(s):

Martin Gluchman

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Ethical Theory ◽

Social Consequences ◽

Peter Singer ◽

Life And Death ◽

Sanctity Of Life ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Paternalistic Approach

Abstract The paper presents different approaches to the relationship of life and death among selected authors as a review of their articles within the last volume of the Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) journal. The resource of the review is an article by Peter Singer The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethics. Firstly, I try to analyze the issue when death occurs and when we can talk about death as a phenomenon that each and every living human being must come to terms within the course of their lives. Ethics of social consequences is used to analyze different approaches and states a conclusion defending the principles of humanity and human dignity within the scope of this ethical theory applied to various problem cases. I strive to support the question of the quality of life through the paternalistic approach of physicians influenced by their humane and dignified understanding of their relationship towards the patients. Ethics of social consequences offers many solutions to the discussed issues throughout the reviewed articles.

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