What euthanasia means?
Listen to pronunciation. (YOO-thuh-NAY-zhuh) An easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request. Also called mercy killing.
When is passive euthanasia used?
Passive euthanasia occurs when the patient dies because the medical professionals either don’t do something necessary to keep the patient alive, or when they stop doing something that is keeping the patient alive.
Is passive euthanasia morally permissible?
The reason why passive (voluntary) euthanasia is said to be morally permissible is that the patient is simply allowed to die because steps are not taken to preserve or prolong life.
How do Deontologists respond to euthanasia?
The deontological, specifically patient-center deontology, is the best ethical framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of euthanasia because it relies on patient autonomy and making judgments based on the act and agent themselves rather than the consequences.
What does Kantian ethics say about euthanasia?
Kant, in forbidding suicide and euthanasia, is conflating respect for persons and respect for people, and assuming that, in killing a person (either oneself or another), we are thereby undermining personhood.
What would violate the categorical imperative?
Every rational action must set before itself not only a principle, but also an end. This would violate the categorical imperative, because it denies the basis for there to be free rational action at all; it denies the status of a person as an end in themselves.
What is categorical imperative by Kant?
Categorical imperative, in the ethics of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, founder of critical philosophy, a rule of conduct that is unconditional or absolute for all agents, the validity or claim of which does not depend on any desire or end.