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this the " Life Enhancement" conception. The "Rational" Conception Those who promote the notions of "rational suicide" and "the right to suicide", reason that suicide represents a sensible alternative to living under intolerable circumstances. They hold that if a realistic assessment of "positives" and
will show that morality of prevention and moral ideas about suicide overlap: ideas about what morally permissible determine to a large extent the structure and strategy of prevention. 2. Suicide and the Value of Life Suicide-prevention has its origin in the belief that killing oneself is an abnor
risk is the conception of suicide as a rational behavior that people may choose when their living conditions are sufficiently unbearable. It might help to ask suicidal persons to dispute whether there is really no other way of solving this unbearability of life. In such a dispute, it might tum out
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND METAETHICS1 Owen Goldin Abstract Contrà Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action
the state, from the solidarity of the village community to the life•style of the modern city represents progress. This is not to engage in a false social nostalgia for a lost garden of Eden. Material poverty has, of course, appalling consequences for the length and quality of life; except for the
, they change in relation to one another. Many animals are in some respect social animals, and humans are intensely social. For these social animals, life’s struggle is more efficiently conducted in a society; there is a survival advantage to 196 michael p. nelson living in a social setting. According to
the sins of Prometheus. In both cases the result was that mankind had to earn its living through work" (1992: 167-168). After an analysis of work and occupational specialization among the Aztecs, Berdan concluded that "a strong work ethic permeated all walks of life" (1982: 54) and demonstrated this
between the social and cosmic forces . The outward manifestation of this idea was the palace , the sacred centre of the town surrounded by walls, the place where the most important decisions concerning town life were taken and where esoteric rituals were performed in a narrow circle of initiated people
ethnic groups and tribes, each with its own territory. They form distinctive and separate units, which exist independently of each other, each having its own characteristic way of life. Confronted with such a variety of different groups and subgroups, it becomes difficult to make generalizations as
effects on their “quality of life.” From there the discussion may branch out in a number of ways: for example, into questions about how much we have to give up in order to be good environmentalists, or whether lower consumption should be man- dated by governments. I anticipate that some students will find