Robert Tobin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199641567
- eISBN:
- 9780191738418
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641567.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This final chapter covers the last two decades of Butler's life, a time of profound social change in Ireland. It notes the emerging liberalization within Irish society during the sixties and ...
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This final chapter covers the last two decades of Butler's life, a time of profound social change in Ireland. It notes the emerging liberalization within Irish society during the sixties and seventies, as well as its growing internationalization. It charts Butler's belated recognition both in Ireland and abroad in the 1980s as a gifted essayist and social critic after the publication of successive volumes of his essays by Lilliput Press in Dublin. It identifies him as a forerunner of the pluralistic values that came to prominence in the Republic at the time of his death.Less
This final chapter covers the last two decades of Butler's life, a time of profound social change in Ireland. It notes the emerging liberalization within Irish society during the sixties and seventies, as well as its growing internationalization. It charts Butler's belated recognition both in Ireland and abroad in the 1980s as a gifted essayist and social critic after the publication of successive volumes of his essays by Lilliput Press in Dublin. It identifies him as a forerunner of the pluralistic values that came to prominence in the Republic at the time of his death.
Gerald O'Collins SJ and Mario Farrugia SJ
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199259946
- eISBN:
- 9780191602122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199259941.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter begins by recalling several developments in Catholic moral teaching and practice (on usury, torture, and slavery), and then examines some distinctive Catholic moral convictions: about ...
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This chapter begins by recalling several developments in Catholic moral teaching and practice (on usury, torture, and slavery), and then examines some distinctive Catholic moral convictions: about respect for life, the sexual order, truth, justice, care for the needy, human dignity, and human rights. The chapter ends by proposing two fundamental principles for forming one’s moral conscience: the following of Christ and docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.Less
This chapter begins by recalling several developments in Catholic moral teaching and practice (on usury, torture, and slavery), and then examines some distinctive Catholic moral convictions: about respect for life, the sexual order, truth, justice, care for the needy, human dignity, and human rights. The chapter ends by proposing two fundamental principles for forming one’s moral conscience: the following of Christ and docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Thomas Müller
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097690
- eISBN:
- 9781526104465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097690.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter focuses on rural asylums in south Germany, the former kingdom of Wuerttemberg. Various forms of patient work in psychiatric institutions are discussed in relation to their varied ...
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This chapter focuses on rural asylums in south Germany, the former kingdom of Wuerttemberg. Various forms of patient work in psychiatric institutions are discussed in relation to their varied contexts and diverse structures. Patient work in the asylums was organised in agricultural colonies. Various forms of handicraft in and outside the asylum were part of the daily life of patients in psychiatric family care settings. Zwiefalten, the oldest asylum in Wuerttemberg, is at the core of this study, while some attention is also given to the asylums of Schussenried and Weissenau. It is shown that various aspects of the institutions‘ history are not fully in line with the development of psychiatry in other regions of the country.Less
This chapter focuses on rural asylums in south Germany, the former kingdom of Wuerttemberg. Various forms of patient work in psychiatric institutions are discussed in relation to their varied contexts and diverse structures. Patient work in the asylums was organised in agricultural colonies. Various forms of handicraft in and outside the asylum were part of the daily life of patients in psychiatric family care settings. Zwiefalten, the oldest asylum in Wuerttemberg, is at the core of this study, while some attention is also given to the asylums of Schussenried and Weissenau. It is shown that various aspects of the institutions‘ history are not fully in line with the development of psychiatry in other regions of the country.
Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815163
- eISBN:
- 9781496815200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815163.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses two recent Dutch children’s books by Koos Meinderts and Marjolijn Hof that address euthanasia and the right to self-determination at every age. The Netherlands is a country ...
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This chapter discusses two recent Dutch children’s books by Koos Meinderts and Marjolijn Hof that address euthanasia and the right to self-determination at every age. The Netherlands is a country known for its relatively liberal position on euthanasia. Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer presents the books by Hof and Meinderts as interesting case studies in examining how children’s literature in the Netherlands interacts with social views of childhood and old age. Both generations have a struggle for agency in common. The analysis is framed by sociological research on ageing and ageism in contemporary Western cultures, including Dutch culture, and in particular on the issue of voluntary death among old people. The idea of so-called “rational” suicide to cut short old age is a heavily debated topic in age studies to which these two children’s books contribute.Less
This chapter discusses two recent Dutch children’s books by Koos Meinderts and Marjolijn Hof that address euthanasia and the right to self-determination at every age. The Netherlands is a country known for its relatively liberal position on euthanasia. Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer presents the books by Hof and Meinderts as interesting case studies in examining how children’s literature in the Netherlands interacts with social views of childhood and old age. Both generations have a struggle for agency in common. The analysis is framed by sociological research on ageing and ageism in contemporary Western cultures, including Dutch culture, and in particular on the issue of voluntary death among old people. The idea of so-called “rational” suicide to cut short old age is a heavily debated topic in age studies to which these two children’s books contribute.
Scott Cutler Shershow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226088129
- eISBN:
- 9780226088266
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226088266.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
The question of a “right to die” — or what is sometimes called euthanasia or assisted-suicide — remains today the subject of vexed legal, political, ethical and philosophic debates. The Sacred ...
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The question of a “right to die” — or what is sometimes called euthanasia or assisted-suicide — remains today the subject of vexed legal, political, ethical and philosophic debates. The Sacred Part brings the thought of deconstruction to bear on this debate to uncover the knot of unexamined assumptions at its core. The book first outlines a strategy and protocol of deconstruction to be employed in the analyses that follow. To contextualize the contemporary debate, the book provides a selective genealogy, from Cicero to Kant, of the concept of “human dignity,” and considers its relation to two other abstractions: “sovereignty” and “sanctity.” The book also considers a few outstanding examples of the philosophic approach to suicide in general. The concept of dignity proves to be characterized by a strange groundlessness by which it denotes the value of humanity in terms of a shifting relation of calculable and incalculable value. Similarly, the common theological and ethical prohibition of suicide proves to be recurrently troubled by a figure of sacrificial calculation. Such problems account for the unacknowledged contradictions that continue to emerge in the contemporary debate about a right to die. Finally, The Sacred Part rethinks the fundamental opposition at work in this question by envisioning a just care: a mutual commitment to one another that, making practically and economically possible the maintenance of life to its mortal limit, would correspondingly make possible a practical right to decide for death.Less
The question of a “right to die” — or what is sometimes called euthanasia or assisted-suicide — remains today the subject of vexed legal, political, ethical and philosophic debates. The Sacred Part brings the thought of deconstruction to bear on this debate to uncover the knot of unexamined assumptions at its core. The book first outlines a strategy and protocol of deconstruction to be employed in the analyses that follow. To contextualize the contemporary debate, the book provides a selective genealogy, from Cicero to Kant, of the concept of “human dignity,” and considers its relation to two other abstractions: “sovereignty” and “sanctity.” The book also considers a few outstanding examples of the philosophic approach to suicide in general. The concept of dignity proves to be characterized by a strange groundlessness by which it denotes the value of humanity in terms of a shifting relation of calculable and incalculable value. Similarly, the common theological and ethical prohibition of suicide proves to be recurrently troubled by a figure of sacrificial calculation. Such problems account for the unacknowledged contradictions that continue to emerge in the contemporary debate about a right to die. Finally, The Sacred Part rethinks the fundamental opposition at work in this question by envisioning a just care: a mutual commitment to one another that, making practically and economically possible the maintenance of life to its mortal limit, would correspondingly make possible a practical right to decide for death.
Susanne C. Knittel
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262786
- eISBN:
- 9780823266500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262786.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Chapter 3 focuses on a set of more hybrid texts, which present a significant change in the literary depictions of Nazi euthanasia and its memory, as they not only focus on the life stories of actual ...
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Chapter 3 focuses on a set of more hybrid texts, which present a significant change in the literary depictions of Nazi euthanasia and its memory, as they not only focus on the life stories of actual victims but also participate in discussions about contemporary issues such as mercy killing and genetic engineering and the status of people with mental disabilities in society today. In order to recover the life stories of these victims, authors such as Hans Ulrich Dapp, Helga Schubert, and Hellmut Haasis incorporate elements of documentary, (auto)biography, and fiction, taking on the role of a “vicarious witness,” giving voice to these silent and silenced victims. Vicarious witnessing offers an alternative to the stereotypical or dehumanizing representations of disability that so often stand in the way of a genuine or appropriate commemoration of these victims.Less
Chapter 3 focuses on a set of more hybrid texts, which present a significant change in the literary depictions of Nazi euthanasia and its memory, as they not only focus on the life stories of actual victims but also participate in discussions about contemporary issues such as mercy killing and genetic engineering and the status of people with mental disabilities in society today. In order to recover the life stories of these victims, authors such as Hans Ulrich Dapp, Helga Schubert, and Hellmut Haasis incorporate elements of documentary, (auto)biography, and fiction, taking on the role of a “vicarious witness,” giving voice to these silent and silenced victims. Vicarious witnessing offers an alternative to the stereotypical or dehumanizing representations of disability that so often stand in the way of a genuine or appropriate commemoration of these victims.
Scott Cutler Shershow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226088129
- eISBN:
- 9780226088266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226088266.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter argues that the arguments on both sides of the debate about a right to die are characterized by unacknowledged contradictions, and in particular by a tension between the claims of ...
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This chapter argues that the arguments on both sides of the debate about a right to die are characterized by unacknowledged contradictions, and in particular by a tension between the claims of calculation and incalculability. Those in favor of a right to die argue above all that such a right is the supreme expression of individual autonomy, freedom, and reasoned choice. They also, however, implicitly undermine this argument by also suggesting that the establishment of such a right would also conserve scarce medical resources. Those opposed to a right to die, similarly, argue above all for an unconditional principle of “always care, never kill.” But they also implicitly qualify this absolute principle by eschewing all possibility of reasoned choice, and arguing that even though some cases seem to justify a right to die, to allow even these will put on us on a “slippery slope” towards a “culture of death.” This side also undermines the principle of unconditional care even more fatally by yoking it to an ethics of the marketplace by which, in practice, such care would be distributed according to the vagaries of birth, employment and fortune.Less
This chapter argues that the arguments on both sides of the debate about a right to die are characterized by unacknowledged contradictions, and in particular by a tension between the claims of calculation and incalculability. Those in favor of a right to die argue above all that such a right is the supreme expression of individual autonomy, freedom, and reasoned choice. They also, however, implicitly undermine this argument by also suggesting that the establishment of such a right would also conserve scarce medical resources. Those opposed to a right to die, similarly, argue above all for an unconditional principle of “always care, never kill.” But they also implicitly qualify this absolute principle by eschewing all possibility of reasoned choice, and arguing that even though some cases seem to justify a right to die, to allow even these will put on us on a “slippery slope” towards a “culture of death.” This side also undermines the principle of unconditional care even more fatally by yoking it to an ethics of the marketplace by which, in practice, such care would be distributed according to the vagaries of birth, employment and fortune.
Scott Cutler Shershow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226088129
- eISBN:
- 9780226088266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226088266.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Building on previous chapters, this chapter argues that the whole debate about a right to die is pervaded, on both sides, by a logic of sacrificial calculation. This point is elaborated by ...
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Building on previous chapters, this chapter argues that the whole debate about a right to die is pervaded, on both sides, by a logic of sacrificial calculation. This point is elaborated by consideration of a wide variety of texts: Samuel D. Williams’ “Euthanasia” (1870), Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s infamous Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life (1920), the “Declaration on Euthanasia” of the Catholic Church (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990), Ronald Dworkin’s Life’s Dominion (1993), and several others. Among other points, arguments about euthanasia and its practical details prove to be inseparable from difficult questions of time and self-presence.Less
Building on previous chapters, this chapter argues that the whole debate about a right to die is pervaded, on both sides, by a logic of sacrificial calculation. This point is elaborated by consideration of a wide variety of texts: Samuel D. Williams’ “Euthanasia” (1870), Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s infamous Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life (1920), the “Declaration on Euthanasia” of the Catholic Church (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990), Ronald Dworkin’s Life’s Dominion (1993), and several others. Among other points, arguments about euthanasia and its practical details prove to be inseparable from difficult questions of time and self-presence.
Patrick Montague
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835272
- eISBN:
- 9781469601854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869413_montague.8
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Though the modern concept of the word euthanasia is physician-assisted suicide, it has nothing in common with what has become known as the Euthanasia Program conducted by the National Socialist ...
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Though the modern concept of the word euthanasia is physician-assisted suicide, it has nothing in common with what has become known as the Euthanasia Program conducted by the National Socialist regime. This chapter discusses the Euthanasia Program and the establishment of euthanasia centers in Germany. Operation 14f13 involved the killing of approximately 20,000 concentration camp inmates under the auspices of the program. Some 6,000 children perished under the children's Euthanasia Program, which provided mercy deaths for children born with deformities. The chapter also provides a brief life story of Herbert Lange, the man who eventually established the Chełmno extermination camp.Less
Though the modern concept of the word euthanasia is physician-assisted suicide, it has nothing in common with what has become known as the Euthanasia Program conducted by the National Socialist regime. This chapter discusses the Euthanasia Program and the establishment of euthanasia centers in Germany. Operation 14f13 involved the killing of approximately 20,000 concentration camp inmates under the auspices of the program. Some 6,000 children perished under the children's Euthanasia Program, which provided mercy deaths for children born with deformities. The chapter also provides a brief life story of Herbert Lange, the man who eventually established the Chełmno extermination camp.
Mark Dery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677733
- eISBN:
- 9781452948324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677733.003.0029
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter focuses on the Church of Euthanasia and its radical solutions to the global population explosion: suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. The Church of Euthanasia is a tax-exempt ...
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This chapter focuses on the Church of Euthanasia and its radical solutions to the global population explosion: suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. The Church of Euthanasia is a tax-exempt “educational foundation” dedicated to the proposition that all men (and women) are created superfluous. It has staked its claim on the far fringes of the negative population growth movement, alongside neo-Malthusians like the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and deep ecologists such as the Gaia Liberation Front. According to a Church spokesperson, “The Church is devoted to restoring balance between humans and the remaining species, through voluntary population reduction.” The Church, which claims “hundreds” of card-carrying members as well as a thousand “e-members” scattered across the Net, is based in the Somerville, Massachusetts, apartment of its cross-dressing cleric, the Reverend Chris Korda. One of its notorious slogans is “Save the planet; kill yourself!” and its theological cornerstone is the single commandment “Thou shalt not procreate.” Misanthropy, it turns out, goes hand in glove with the Malthusian gospel that the Church preaches.Less
This chapter focuses on the Church of Euthanasia and its radical solutions to the global population explosion: suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. The Church of Euthanasia is a tax-exempt “educational foundation” dedicated to the proposition that all men (and women) are created superfluous. It has staked its claim on the far fringes of the negative population growth movement, alongside neo-Malthusians like the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and deep ecologists such as the Gaia Liberation Front. According to a Church spokesperson, “The Church is devoted to restoring balance between humans and the remaining species, through voluntary population reduction.” The Church, which claims “hundreds” of card-carrying members as well as a thousand “e-members” scattered across the Net, is based in the Somerville, Massachusetts, apartment of its cross-dressing cleric, the Reverend Chris Korda. One of its notorious slogans is “Save the planet; kill yourself!” and its theological cornerstone is the single commandment “Thou shalt not procreate.” Misanthropy, it turns out, goes hand in glove with the Malthusian gospel that the Church preaches.
