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Autonomy and the value of life as elements of human dignity

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2017
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Muders, S. (2017). Autonomy and the value of life as elements of human dignity. In S. Muders (Ed.), Human dignity and assisted death (Vol. 1, p. online). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0008

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Within the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia, the arguments from autonomy and from the special value of life are often linked to human dignity in order to make the normative principles they defend more resistant against competing considerations. However, the resulting conceptions of dignity are usually presented as competing with each other; that is, either one spells out human dignity in terms of autonomy, or one explicates it in terms of the value of human life. As an alternative, this chapter offers a “combined approach”: I

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  • Muders, Sebastian
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  • Muders, Sebastian

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Human dignity and assisted death

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Oxford

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value of life, autonomy, assisted dying, human dignity, human capacities, dignity as authority, dignity as a value

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English

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2017-10

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9780190675967

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Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2017

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Muders, S. (2017). Autonomy and the value of life as elements of human dignity. In S. Muders (Ed.), Human dignity and assisted death (Vol. 1, p. online). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0008

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