Published: 2012-12-31

New humanism or post-humanism? Ethical and legal aspects of the legalization of euthanasia in the world in the years 2000-2015

Andrzej Kobyliński
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Section: Humanistic Foundations of Environmental Protection
https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2015.13.4.04

Abstract

New humanism or post-humanism? Ethical and legal aspects of the legalization of euthanasia in the world in the years 2000-2015 The main aim of this article is to outline the discussion on euthanasia that affects the basic issues of human life – the foundation of human dignity, sense of pain and suffering, conception of the afterlife, quality and value of life, etc. All the indications are that the process of the legalization of euthanasia will develop in the coming decades. Today we need a new paradigm of bioethics, built on the basis of a new humanism which will allow us to adequately analyze such phenomena as death, suffering and dying. The new paradigm of bioethics can be an effective tool in the dispute over the death on request.

Keywords:

bioethics, euthanasia, Hans Küng, new humanism, post-humanism, stopping of extraordinary or aggressive medical treatment

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Kobyliński, A. (2012). New humanism or post-humanism? Ethical and legal aspects of the legalization of euthanasia in the world in the years 2000-2015. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae, 13(4), 85–114. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2015.13.4.04

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