Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?

In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate “agree to disagree”. This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more co...

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Autor principal: Holm, Søren
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2010
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20676776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-010-9264-1
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description In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate “agree to disagree”. This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more complicated than what is usually believed to be the case. Agreeing to disagree is philosophically problematic and will often lead to an unstable compromise.
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spelling pubmed-29495582010-10-21 Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree? Holm, Søren Med Health Care Philos Short Communication In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate “agree to disagree”. This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more complicated than what is usually believed to be the case. Agreeing to disagree is philosophically problematic and will often lead to an unstable compromise. Springer Netherlands 2010-07-31 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2949558/ /pubmed/20676776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-010-9264-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?
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title_full Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?
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title_short Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20676776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-010-9264-1
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