Organon F
Volume 26, August 2019, Issue 4, Pages 612–634
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
In this paper, I defend the view that the requested euthanasia of adults is morally permissible and should be legalised; I use an argument from analogy which compares physician-assisted euthanasia with morally less ambiguous and, in my opinion, an acceptable instance of mercy killing. I also respond to several objections that either try to prove that the instance of mercy killing is not acceptable, or that there is a fundamental difference between these two cases of killing. Furthermore, in the remainder of the paper I defend the moral permissibility and legalisation of euthanasia against several objections that appeared in local disputes on this issue, based on the concepts of the limits of freedom, the slippery slope, and the needlessness of euthanasia.
Legalisation; moral freedom; morality; needlessness of euthanasia; requested euthanasia; sanctity; slippery slope.
Author
Affiliation
Comenius University
Address
Department of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Šafárikovo námestie 6, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Received
22 November 2018
Accepted
16 March 2019
Published online
17 March 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Greif, A. (2019). The Morality of Euthanasia. Organon F, 26(4), 612–634. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26404
Chicago
Greif, Adam. 2019. "The Morality of Euthanasia." Organon F 26 (4): 612–634. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26404
Harvard
Greif, A. (2019). The Morality of Euthanasia. Organon F, 26(4), pp. 612–634. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26404
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