The University of Wollongong Philosophy Research Seminar Held in the CAPSTRANS Seminar Room 1003 (Building 19, Arts) on Wednesdays at 17.30, all are welcome.
2nd April 2008 Dr. Kim Atkins (Wollongong) "A qualified justification for ending one's life: autonomy and the concept of "an alternative of oneself" Abstract I provide a qualified defence of ending one's life that draws upon recent work in personal identity and normative ethics. Much has been written on the question of whether death is a harm, but much less on the question of whether acting to end one's life can be considered a continuation of one's personal or moral identity. I propose that it can be where it constitutes a genuine instance of what Jan Bransen has called moral self-love, expressed in "an alternative of oneself". This account gives a role to the inter-personal and social relations that inform and constrain an individual's identity and normative choices within a process that explicitly allows the agent to make a moral exception of herself by articulating a uniquely self-defining continuation of herself. In this way I attempt to provide an account that is sensitive to the liberal concern with autonomy without relying on a liberal conception of the self. With best wishes, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Lecturer in Philosophy and Research Seminar Convenor The University of Wollongong Personal <http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/philosophy/UOW025977.html> Webpage Book: Cognitive Integration Available from: Palgrave <http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275285> Macmillan and Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Integration-Mind-Cognition-Unbounded/dp/140 398977X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0660778-1972653?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190152573&s r=8-1>
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