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Deconstructing Dignity电子书

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作       者:Shershow, Scott Cutler

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2014-10-01

字       数:48.5万

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The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In?Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate.Shershow examines texts from Cicero's?De Officiis?to Kant's?Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals?to court decisions and religious declarations. Through them he reveals how arguments both supporting and denying the right to die undermine their own unconditional concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life with a hidden conditional logic, one often tied to practical economic concerns and the scarcity or unequal distribution of medical resources. He goes on to examine the exceptional case of self-sacrifice, closing with a vision of a society-one whose conditions we are far from meeting-in which the debate can finally be resolved. A sophisticated analysis of a heated topic,?Deconstructing Dignity?is also a masterful example of deconstructionist methods at work.?
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Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface: The Sacred Part

Acknowledgments

One. Methodological Introduction: A Strategy and Protocol of Deconstruction

Two. Dignity and Sanctity

Three. Dignity and Sovereignty

Four. Human Dignity from Cicero to Kant

Five. The Right to Die: Mapping a Contemporary Debate

Six. Suicide and Sacrifice from Plato to Kant

Seven. Sacrifice and the Right to Die

Eight. A Debate Deconstructed

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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