In this article, I attempt to answer three philosophical questions which are raised by the existence of corpses: (i) Is the state of a corpse epistemologically opaque or incomprehensible? (ii) Are corpses dead human beings? (iii) Do we have moral obligations to corpses? I argue that human beings can, in succession, exist in two ways: as living human beings, and then, as dead humans...
Keywords: Leichnam, Tod, Unbegreifbarkeit des Todes, Fortexistenz, postmortale Rechte
01/2008 | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Akademie Verlag