The aim of the paper is the determination of the methodological status of the term dead body and its logical relationship to living body...
Keywords: Leib, Körper, Leben, Sterben, Tod
01/2008 | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Akademie VerlagIn 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 VerlagThe author discusses the definition of the so called personal death and maintains that the negation of the biological dimension of death which follows from a dualistic lockean anthropology adopted by many contemporary bioethicists represents a banalisation of human death...
Keywords: Tod, person, Körper, natürlicher Tod, Bioethik
01/2008 | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Akademie Verlag