The debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS) continues to ignore the
philosophical anthropology on which certain critical claims rest. In this paper, I offer several …

The lack of consensus in American society regarding the permissibility of assisted suicide
and euthanasia is due in large part to a failure to address the nature of the human person …

Adequate response to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia depends on fundamental
philosophical and theological issues, including the character of an appropriate …

Protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, we do not share a common morality. Moreover,
there are deep and divisive moral disagreements about medical matters. We are divided by …

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quately treated, for example. Some of the people Dr Kevorkian assisted were not terminally …

The paper presents an account of suffering as a multi-level phenomenon based on concepts
such as mood, being-in-the-world and core life value. This phenomenological account will …

Rather than articulating and defending a particular normative stance concerning assisted
suicide and euthanasia, attention here is directed toward the background, often tacit …

Predominant among the terminological ambiguities that plague contemporary bioethics is
confusion attending the meaning of the term “human dignity,” particularly as it applies to so …

Within the moral/social order maintained and reproduced by biomedical ethics (ie, the
“peaceable community”), suffering is a senseless accident with no value. Insofar as suffering …

Traditionally, continental philosophers have not addressed specific ethical problems, such
as assisted suicide and euthanasia, and instead have focused on hermeneutics and …