Flourishing and Finitude

Kauppinen, Antti

doi:10.26556/jesp.v8i2.163

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“…Just imagine that humanity would not continue beyond the year 2075; many readers will experience a reduced sense of meaning in their lives on that supposition. Although some have maintained that substantial meaning in life could be available even in the absence of the continuation of the human race (Trisel 2004), more often thinkers have debated with each other about precisely why future generations would either be necessary for, or contribute much towards, meaning in our lives (Scheffler 2013;Kauppinen 2014;Metz 2016).…”

Section: Creating Life: Whether and How To Procreatementioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning and medicine: An underexplored bioethical value

Metz

2021

Ethik Med

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Definition of the problem Since the origin of bioethics as a discipline, the field has been dominated by consideration of two main values, well-being and morality. I cast doubt on whether those are sufficient to resolve an array of important debates about which decisions to make in respect of medicine, and I also consider whether a third, under-explored value should play a much larger role. Arguments I provide reason to believe that the value of what makes a life meaningful is essential to being able to provide conclusive judgements about several contentious matters in bioethics. After first indicating how meaningfulness plausibly differs from rightness and happiness, I point out how it cannot be reasonably ignored when making decisions in six 'life and death' matters. Conclusion My aim is not to draw any firm conclusions about what to do when it comes to these life and death topics, but rather to show that in order to arrive at any, one has to consider the category of life's meaning, which has, until recently, been nearly absent from Western bioethics since its inception.

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Section: Creating Life: Whether and How To Procreatementioning

confidence: 99%