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Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg May 12, 2016

The ‘Singer-Affair’ and Practical Ethics: A Response

  • Peter Singer
From the journal Analyse & Kritik

Abstract

This response to the articles in this issue of ‘Analyse & Kritik’ begins with some general remarks on the ‘Singer-Affair’ in which I suggest that while the rational discussion of the ethical issue of euthanasia poses no threat of a return to Nazism, there is a real danger in the creation of a climate in which people are ready to use force to suppress ideas with which they disagree. I then state and criticise two popular theses about t he wrongness of killing: that there is a crucial moral distinction between an act and an omission, and that all human beings possess an intrinsic right to life that no nonhuman beings have. This serves as a background to the section that follows, in which I take up the detailed criticisms of my views made by Professors Lenzen, Birnbacher, J.C. Wolf and Hoerster.

Online erschienen: 2016-5-12
Erschienen im Druck: 1990-11-1

© 1990 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart

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