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Safranek, John Paul.

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Preference utilitarianism and euthanasia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Preference utilitarianism and euthanasia./
Author:	Safranek, John Paul.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 0911.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-03A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=9728791
ISBN:	0591379015

Preference utilitarianism and euthanasia.
Safranek, John Paul.

Preference utilitarianism and euthanasia. - 272 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 0911.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 1997.

Euthanasia is presently the most important issue in the field of bioethics. This dissertation challenges the justifications for euthanasia, particularly those grounded on autonomy, which critics of euthanasia have been remiss in addressing.

ISBN: 0591379015Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Preference utilitarianism and euthanasia.
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520 $a Euthanasia is presently the most important issue in the field of bioethics. This dissertation challenges the justifications for euthanasia, particularly those grounded on autonomy, which critics of euthanasia have been remiss in addressing.
520 $a This dissertation examines the arguments of three preference utilitarians: James Rachels, Peter Singer, and R. M. Hare. Preference utilitarians argue for euthanasia within a consequentialist framework that avoids the deficiencies of classical utilitarianism. They seek to maximize preferences, and argue for euthanasia when the patient and his loved ones prefer to terminate his suffering. Of particular importance is whether preference utilitarians can countenance euthanasia without being logically committed to other types of killing that even these philosophers acknowledge as untenable.
520 $a In allowing the patient to be euthanized when he seeks death, preference utilitarians raise the issue of autonomy, and thus serve as an effective foil for the critique of liberalism's justification of euthanasia that is offered in the second half of the dissertation. Contemporary liberals argue for rights to issues of personal morality--even in the face of social opposition--in terms of autonomy: society cannot impose morality to prevent an individual from committing self-regarding acts, and therefore acts such as euthanasia must be permitted because the individual is not harming others.
520 $a This dissertation argues that preference utilitarians and liberals extol the same value, namely, autonomy, and that preference utilitarians offer the more coherent moral and political theory. Individual autonomy must be limited in certain instances, but contemporary liberals are unable to circumscribe it without imposing a morality and thereby undermining one of the fundamental tenets of their political theory. Preference utilitarians can consistently apply their principle to limit autonomy, however they are burdened with the logical--and unacceptable--implications of their theory. Therefore neither preference utilitarianism nor liberalism can offer a coherent justification for euthanasia. Ultimately, this dissertation offers a natural law understanding of human life, and explains its proscription against euthanasia.
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