Gibt Es eine Moralische Pflicht zur Organspende? Thesen zu einem Umstrittenen Thema
Is there a Moral Duty to Donate Organs? Thesis on a Contraversial Subject
Author(s): Walter SchweidlerSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Ontology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Organ Donation; Moral Duty; Act Utilitarianism; Rule Utilitarianism; Deontological Standpoint; Specific Complex Act; Postponing Death; Decision Questions;
Summary/Abstract: There is an obligation of us as human beings to help other persons who need help by giving them something from what we possess. But we do not “possess” our organs. The kind of action by which organs are transplanted is not simply the kind of an act of help or solidarity. Since to it belongs the ending of a patient’s life on cause of the doctor’s action the decisive question is if it belongs to the essence of that kind of action that it is the killing of a human being. My thesis is that it is not an act of killing. But it is a complex kind of action of a new and genuine character and therefore needs cautious and restrictive ethical consideration. In no case there can be something like a human duty to give one’s organs to others.
Journal: Arhe
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 85-98
- Page Count: 14
- Language: German