[PHILOS 2D03] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 93 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Battin battin offers an argument in favour of the practice of euthanasia: i believe that this opposition to euthanasia is in serious moral error on grounds of mercy, autonomy, and justice. The first duty means that in order to extend mercy to a suffering patient, a physician may refrain from treatment if it offers the patient no overriding benefits. This is a justification for passive euthanasia or allowing to die (battin, 323). The principle of mercy is conceptually tied to the principle of autonomy insofar as what guarantees the best application of the principle is respect for the patient"s own wishes concerning the relief of his suffering or pain (battin, Battin considers a couple objections which ultimately provide the limitations or specifications of this principle. Justice: this principle is used to justify terminate lives that are. Irretrievably inaccessible to human care. the principle itself.
