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- Title
OFF TARGET.
- Authors
Conrad, Peter
- Abstract
This article comments on the views of philosopher Peter Singer on life and death. In "Changing Ethics in Life and Death Decision Making," he argues that the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic of the sanctity of human life cannot be sustained in our modern secular society. He uses the emergence of brain death as a rationale for the societal acceptance of expanding definitions of death. Since we have already redefined death and no one objected, Singer assumes that denotation of life and death is sufficiently malleable to the sway of ethical argument.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHERS; SINGER, Peter, 1946-; LIFE; DEATH; BIOETHICS; ETHICS
- Publication
Society, 2001, Vol 38, Issue 5, p33
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-001-1005-x