http://klinechair.missouri.edu/Vita_Revised.htm (#43 on the list)I argue that, under a broad range of circumstances, consensual killing (suicide, assisted suicide, and killing another person with their permission) is morally permissible and forcible prevention is not. The argument depends crucially on the following claims: (1) Agents have certain control rights over the use of their person (a form of self-ownership). (2) These rights are understood in choice-protecting terms. (3) The relevant consent is that of the agent at or prior to the time of action (and not that of the agent in the future). (4) There are no impersonal duties. (5) God, if he exists, has given us no commands not to use natural resources for the purposes of consensual ki...
There’s a widespread intuition that if the only way an innocent person can stop her villainous attac...
Ferenc Huoranszki argues for two main claims in the ninth chapter of Freedom of the Will: A Conditio...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
The A. argues that, under a broad range of circumstances, consensual killing (suicide, assisted suic...
There are well established criteria for what constitutes a homicide and under what conditions it is ...
Whether to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia is among the most hotly debated legal and publ...
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1976, given by Judith Jarvis Thomson, an American philos...
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the common legal and psychiatric presumption that all deci...
The thesis advances the argument that the rationale for permitting informed, competent adults to ref...
In Part I, the author explains that it is the adjudication between the conflicting claims of individ...
Defends Kantian paternalism: Interference with an individual’s liberty for her own sake is...
This text focuses on selected basic arguments of libertarianism that could be found in certain debat...
In “Killing in Self-Defense” (119 Ethics 507 (2009)), Jonathan Quong claims that one may kill innoce...
This thesis defends an individual's moral right to be aided in dying by a physician (that is, volunt...
Suppose that we think it important that people have the chance to enjoy autonomous lives. An obvious...
There’s a widespread intuition that if the only way an innocent person can stop her villainous attac...
Ferenc Huoranszki argues for two main claims in the ninth chapter of Freedom of the Will: A Conditio...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
The A. argues that, under a broad range of circumstances, consensual killing (suicide, assisted suic...
There are well established criteria for what constitutes a homicide and under what conditions it is ...
Whether to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia is among the most hotly debated legal and publ...
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1976, given by Judith Jarvis Thomson, an American philos...
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the common legal and psychiatric presumption that all deci...
The thesis advances the argument that the rationale for permitting informed, competent adults to ref...
In Part I, the author explains that it is the adjudication between the conflicting claims of individ...
Defends Kantian paternalism: Interference with an individual’s liberty for her own sake is...
This text focuses on selected basic arguments of libertarianism that could be found in certain debat...
In “Killing in Self-Defense” (119 Ethics 507 (2009)), Jonathan Quong claims that one may kill innoce...
This thesis defends an individual's moral right to be aided in dying by a physician (that is, volunt...
Suppose that we think it important that people have the chance to enjoy autonomous lives. An obvious...
There’s a widespread intuition that if the only way an innocent person can stop her villainous attac...
Ferenc Huoranszki argues for two main claims in the ninth chapter of Freedom of the Will: A Conditio...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...