A Good Death. Issue 2 (29th July 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Good Death. Issue 2 (29th July 2016)
- Main Title:
- A Good Death
- Authors:
- DORSEY, DALE
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Largely in response to Epicurus' famous challenge, philosophers have been quite imaginative in coming up with ways in which death is bad. Most often, death is described as an instrumental bad. Given that I would have obtained additional welfare benefits had I not died when I did, my death causes me to miss out on intrinsic goods I might otherwise have obtained. In this article, however, I argue that the standard account (and its corollaries) misses an important feature of the dis/value of death. I argue that some deaths can be good – intrinsically good – for the person who dies.
- Is Part Of:
- Utilitas. Volume 29:Issue 2(2017)
- Journal:
- Utilitas
- Issue:
- Volume 29:Issue 2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 29, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0029-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 153
- Page End:
- 174
- Publication Date:
- 2016-07-29
- Subjects:
- Utilitarianism -- Periodicals
171.5 - DOI:
- 10.1017/S0953820816000133 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0953-8208
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- Legaldeposit
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