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8Menschenwürde: ein für die Medizinethik irrelevanter Begriff?Ethik in der Medizin 24 (4): 297-306. 2012.ZusammenfassungEs wurde für die These argumentiert, dass der Begriff der Würde in der Medizinethik nutzlos sei und in den Fällen, in denen er verständlich verwendet wird, nichts anderes meint als den Respekt vor der Autonomie von Personen. In diesem Aufsatz soll gezeigt werden, dass diese These falsch ist. Es wird ein Begriff von Würde vorgestellt, der sich nicht auf den Begriff des Respekts vor der Autonomie von Personen reduzieren lässt. Anhand der Diskussion um ein Sterben in Würde soll auch …Read more
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58Wieso moralische Achtung wichtig istAnalyse & Kritik 31 (2): 351-361. 2009.Bittner argues in his paper that the idea of a general duty to respect persons is of much less importance than some moral philosophers think. If respect plays a role in our lives it is mainly appriciation respect persons have to merit. Respecting persons as such is, Bittner thinks, not just irrelevant, but also incompatibel with personal relations. Against this it is argued that respect for persons should be seen as the basic moral duty we have towards persons. And in addition, it is argued, tha…Read more
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37Sind alle Werte vergleichbar?: Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse und das InkommensurabilitätsproblemAnalyse & Kritik 16 (2): 153-165. 1994.Are the values of different options and goods, as cost-benefit analysis assumes, commensurable? Not always. The incommensurability of certain options is based on the fact that preferences are sometimes not rankable, even if the agent is fully informed about the options in question. In addition, even if all values were commensurable they could not be compared in monetary terms. If this is the case, cost-benefit analysis should not be seen as a decision procedure.
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The indispensability of motives: Thoughts on Ernst Fehr and altruismAnalyse & Kritik 27 (1): 188-196. 2005.
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105Human Rights and Human Dignity: A Reply to Doris Schroeder (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (1): 155-161. 2014.According to Doris Schroeder, the view that human rights derive from human dignity should be rejected. She thinks that this is the case for three different reasons: the first has to do with the fact that the dominant concept of dignity is based on religious beliefs which will do no justificatory work in a secular society; the second is that the dominant secular view of dignity, which is the Kantian view, does not provide us with a justification of human rights, i.e. rights all humans have; and t…Read more
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4Ökologie aus philosophischer Sicht (edited book)Humboldt-Studienzentrum, Universität Ulm. 1994.
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