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The Analysis Of Morality About Euthanasia

Posted on:2006-03-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360155457125Subject:Philosophy of Science and Technology
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This text intend to give the euthanasia phenomenon the ethics study and analysis of philosophy with the guide of the Concept of Scientific Development and the recourse of progress of science and technology. At the same time, I want to discuss the relation between euthanasia and harmonious society.The first part is the overview to euthanasia, first inquiring into the history of euthanasia, introduced the present condition of the foreign and local euthanasia currently. The euthanasia has never got an unified definition, so we can't make the discussion carried on under a same standard and same premise. To build up a real dialogue language mood, I give a new definition and analyses it rely on philosophy also. Its important point is: the patient is voluntarily, purpose is to regard the sufferer's dignity and reduce the sufferer pain, its essence is to shorten the progress of death. Seen from the philosophy angle, death is a process from quality change to quantity change after physiology condition descend the threshold, then die can't avoid. The euthanasia is just to shorten the progress of death, according to this point, the writer thinks that mercy killing is one kind of nature death, the cause of death disease. Then introduce the triage of euthanasia under different standard: Active, passive, voluntarily or not etc. At last introduce currently main standpoint and attitudes of educational circles to mercy killing.The second part is a analysis of morality about the mercy killing and try to give solution about some ethics antinomies. The evaluation of euthanasia involves three aspects: life ethics, medical ethics and social ethics, so the analysis of mercy killing also launch from three aspects mainly. First discern the life essence scientificly, according to the method that combine the entity quality and the property function together, Man is an unification of nature sort and social sort. The physiology life is basis, the social life is the most hypostatic part of person, the most important function in person is the act with intention .So person in PVS, or man who lose brain function can bedeemed no longer had the attribute of person, so carrying out the passive mercy killing to them have no ethics obstacle. After analyzed the traditional life and death view, the writer suggest that abandon former understanding about life phenomenon and builds up the new concept of scientific life and death, the important point is to pay attention to the life quantity, respecting the independent right of the person and the development right of the person .On the medical ethics aspect, the antinomy between traditional medical ethics of "save life and help injurer" and euthanasia is more outstanding is obvious, so I suggest renews the understanding about the purpose of medical science firstly, then rebuild the principle of morality on medical. To euthanasia, traditional" filial piety" culture is the biggest resistance, "filial piety" way usually brings tremendous pressure for family members, therefore, the article analyzed the history course of development of filial piety" culture, and advocate " filial piety" with original appearance, emphasis the standpoint that "living happy" and "leisurely die" is the real intension of filial piety".The third part try to study the relation of euthanasia and set up the harmonious society in the ken of Concept of Scientific Development. First, the mercy killing is advantageous to strengthen the health safety of society. According to Abraham Maslows theory, safe demand only next to existence demand, so harmonious society should be a safe society above all. But the health resources of the our country is limited, more than 80% crowd can not enjoy the medical treatment which office provided and insurances, most people lack the safe feeling of hygiene, the impel mercy killing can economize a great deal of resources doubtless, and help to guarantee the public and personal health safety .The euthanasia contributes to the person and the nature development harmoniously together, excessive growth of population and people abuse of technology make the ecosystem environment serious worsen, the progress of science and technology especially the medical science prolong people life, at the same time, lowered the life quantity, prolong the process of pain and sufferings, resulted in human race...
Keywords/Search Tags:euthanasia, analysis of morality, harmonious society
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