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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9034
Autoren: | Münch, Nikolai Müller-Salo, Johannes Schwarz, Clara-Sophie |
Titel: | How to conceive the dignity of the dead? : A dispositional account |
Online-Publikationsdatum: | 24-Apr-2023 |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Sprache des Dokuments: | Englisch |
Zusammenfassung/Abstract: | In dealing with human corpses, notions of dignity play a decisive role, especially within legal texts that regulate a corpse’s handling. However, it is quite unclear how the claim “Treat human corpses with dignity!” should be understood and justified. Drawing upon examples and problems from forensic medicine, this paper explores three possible lines of interpreting such demands: (a) positions that closely link the dignity of the human corpse to the dignity of the former living persons and (b) accounts that derive the dignity of the dead from consequentialist considerations. We argue that both lines heavily rely on contestable metaphysical claims and therefore propose an alternative account for the dignity of the dead. Our proposal (c) focuses on action-guiding attitudes and the symbolic value of the dead. Such a conception allows for a variety of morally appropriate groundings of individual attitudes. It avoids metaphysically troublesome premises and, at the same time, allows to classify certain actions and manners of acting as clearly inappropriate and blameworthy. |
DDC-Sachgruppe: | 610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Organisationseinheit: | FB 04 Medizin |
Veröffentlichungsort: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9034 |
Version: | Published version |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Nutzungsrechte: | CC BY |
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Zeitschrift: | International journal of legal medicine Version of Record (VoR) |
Verlag: | Springer |
Verlagsort: | Berlin u.a. |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 1437-1596 |
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung: | 10.1007/s00414-023-02991-6 |
Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | DFG-491381577-H |
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