Sebastian Muders
Biographic Data
| ID | 6481286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Muders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Muders |
| SIGNATURE | MUDERS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Zürich, Philosophisches Seminar, Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle für Ethik, Zürich, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8361-2667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Human Dignity and Assisted Death
Assisted death is an extremely contested topic in bioethics. Despite the strongly influential role human dignity plays in this debate, it still has not received the appropriate, multifaceted treatment it deserves. Studies show that the notion of dignity already plays an important role in medical contexts. However, its use in these contexts needs to be analyzed and explained in more detail. A detailed philosophical analysis of dignity and how it r…
Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death
This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assis…
Freedom and friendship in Axel Honneth’s freedom’s right
In Axel Honneth?s Freedom?s Right (FR) personal relations, among which Honneth includes not only family and partner relationships but friendship as well, enable the realization of one ?specific form of freedom, which is difficult to specify? (FR 233). This assertion constitutes one of the main thesis of Freedom?s Right. Accordingly, ?freedom in the sense of individual autonomy? should, among countless different ?conceptions of freedom? be underst…
Glück - Werte - Sinn
What does it mean to lead a good life? This anthology examines this question from an interdisciplinary philosophical and theological perspective, assembling contributions from German and international experts. The individual essays are representative of the current state of research. Suitable as an introductory work, the volume surveys the problems that prevail in this area of thought.
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Glück - Werte - Sinn
What does it mean to lead a good life? This anthology examines this question from an interdisciplinary philosophical and theological perspective, assembling contributions from German and international experts. The individual essays are representative of the current state of research. Suitable as an introductory work, the volume surveys the problems that prevail in this area of thought.
Human Dignity and Assisted Death
Assisted death is an extremely contested topic in bioethics. Despite the strongly influential role human dignity plays in this debate, it still has not received the appropriate, multifaceted treatment it deserves. Studies show that the notion of dignity already plays an important role in medical contexts. However, its use in these contexts needs to be analyzed and explained in more detail. A detailed philosophical analysis of dignity and how it r…
Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death
This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assis…
Freedom and friendship in Axel Honneth’s freedom’s right
In Axel Honneth?s Freedom?s Right (FR) personal relations, among which Honneth includes not only family and partner relationships but friendship as well, enable the realization of one ?specific form of freedom, which is difficult to specify? (FR 233). This assertion constitutes one of the main thesis of Freedom?s Right. Accordingly, ?freedom in the sense of individual autonomy? should, among countless different ?conceptions of freedom? be underst…
Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Assisted Suicide (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · conduct of life (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work) · Death with dignity (1 work) · Dignity (1 work)