This interdisciplinary article analyses how citizens debate in an organized public consultation on a deeply conflictual ethical issue: euthanasia. The case in question concerns the Quebec public consultation organized in 2010-2011 by the Special Commission on the Question of Dying with Dignity. The citizen voices debating publicly on euthanasia have so far attracted little attention from researchers. Using Aristotelian rhetorical tools, I analyzed the written submissions (n=149) sent by citizens to the Special Commission. With very few exceptions, all those politically involved in this public consultation, however different they might be, had a high degree of certainty in their ethical beliefs. Everyone acted as if their opponent’s convicti...
Rationality is commonly considered as a superior standard for public debate, especially when its con...
International audienceReconciliation is neither a moral imperative nor a duty attached to citizenshi...
Introduction - In 2016, the Claeys-Leonetti law made anticipated instructions opposable and the HAS ...
Cet article interdisciplinaire analyse la manière avec laquelle des citoyens débattent lors d’une co...
Au cours des dernières décennies, le droit de mourir a émergé comme l’une des questions sociales...
L objectif de ce travail est de comprendre comment la question morale de l euthanasie émerge dans un...
ArticleLa Société royale du Canada, le Barreau du Québec et la Commission spéciale sur la question d...
The word ’euthanasia ’ has been used with a variety of meanings, all of which refer to one precise a...
International audienceThe medical supervision of patients with severe state of altered consciousness...
Que signifie mourir dans la dignité ? Cet article aborde la question par des considérations de l’ord...
International audienceFor many years in France, the ethical debate on the end of life has centered o...
International audienceThis paper intends to explore the ethical dimension of end-of-life situations ...
La question de la mort a toujours hanté les sociétés humaines et le droit semble s'en être emparé tr...
This paper examines the issue of euthanasia, or physician assisted suicide, which has become increas...
This paper aims at prompting an ethical reflection on a concrete institutional reality - violence in...
Rationality is commonly considered as a superior standard for public debate, especially when its con...
International audienceReconciliation is neither a moral imperative nor a duty attached to citizenshi...
Introduction - In 2016, the Claeys-Leonetti law made anticipated instructions opposable and the HAS ...
Cet article interdisciplinaire analyse la manière avec laquelle des citoyens débattent lors d’une co...
Au cours des dernières décennies, le droit de mourir a émergé comme l’une des questions sociales...
L objectif de ce travail est de comprendre comment la question morale de l euthanasie émerge dans un...
ArticleLa Société royale du Canada, le Barreau du Québec et la Commission spéciale sur la question d...
The word ’euthanasia ’ has been used with a variety of meanings, all of which refer to one precise a...
International audienceThe medical supervision of patients with severe state of altered consciousness...
Que signifie mourir dans la dignité ? Cet article aborde la question par des considérations de l’ord...
International audienceFor many years in France, the ethical debate on the end of life has centered o...
International audienceThis paper intends to explore the ethical dimension of end-of-life situations ...
La question de la mort a toujours hanté les sociétés humaines et le droit semble s'en être emparé tr...
This paper examines the issue of euthanasia, or physician assisted suicide, which has become increas...
This paper aims at prompting an ethical reflection on a concrete institutional reality - violence in...
Rationality is commonly considered as a superior standard for public debate, especially when its con...
International audienceReconciliation is neither a moral imperative nor a duty attached to citizenshi...
Introduction - In 2016, the Claeys-Leonetti law made anticipated instructions opposable and the HAS ...