Life, Death, and Subjectivity: Moral Sources in BioethicsThis book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral resources of health care workers for meeting those demands. The series Values in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics. |
Contents
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Intentional Systems | 26 |
Intersubjectivity | 34 |
The Moral Status of Human Beings | 40 |
A New Question | 50 |
Conclusion | 57 |
Respect for Life | 83 |
The Science of Life | 89 |
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acceptance Alasdair MacIntyre alive animals appear argued argument aware basis Bernat bioethical biological Blackwell body brain brain death brain-stem ceased cessation chapter concept of death concern consciousness context corpse cultural dead decision define dualism dying Emmanuel Levinas entity environment essentialist ethical aim Ethics of Care evil existence existential experience expression fetus Heidegger human important intentional system intentionality intersubjective intuition justice kind Levinas living things Martin Heidegger means metaphysical mode moral source moral status moral theory mosquito motivations narrative nature negentropic neocortex Nietzsche norms notion Nursing Nursing Ethics object organism ourselves Oxford patient pea soup person personhood Peter Singer Philosophy position possible principles processes question rational reality responsibility Ricoeur Schweitzer seek self-conscious self-project senescence sense simply social society Stan van Hooft structure struggle subjectivity suffering suggest thought tradition understand virtue Virtue Ethics virtuous vital functions will-to-live York
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Page 2 - practice" I am going to mean any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of, that form of activity, with the result that human powers to achieve excellence, and human conceptions of the ends and goods involved, are systematically extended.
Page 3 - A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.