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Una vez más sobre la eutanasia
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[spa] La discusión sobre la eutanasia continúa siendo una de las más candentes en el ámbito de la bioética. En este artículo, analizaremos el debate entre quienes rechazan la eutanasia amparándose en la santidad de la vida humana y quienes la defienden propugnando como ideas fundamentales la calidad de vida y la autonomía individual. Tras estas visiones enfrentadas, subyace una discusión más profunda entre una concepción antigua de los derechos humanos, basada en el respeto a un orden «natural» y una concepción moderna de los mismos, heredera de un humanismo laico, que considera la autonomía el principal valor.
[eng] The discussion on euthanasia still remains one of the most burning ones in bioethics field. This paper will analyze the debate between those who refuse euthanasia because of the sanctity of human life, and those who defend it with the foundamental ideas of quality of life and individual autonomy. Behind this opposed views, there’s a more foundamental discussion between an old view of human rights, grounded on the respect to a «natural» order, and a modern one, inheritor of a lay humanism, which considers autonomy as the main value.
[eng] The discussion on euthanasia still remains one of the most burning ones in bioethics field. This paper will analyze the debate between those who refuse euthanasia because of the sanctity of human life, and those who defend it with the foundamental ideas of quality of life and individual autonomy. Behind this opposed views, there’s a more foundamental discussion between an old view of human rights, grounded on the respect to a «natural» order, and a modern one, inheritor of a lay humanism, which considers autonomy as the main value.
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CASADO, María. Una vez más sobre la eutanasia. Enrahonar: quaderns de filosofia. 2008. Vol. 40-41, num. 113-121. ISSN 0211-402X. [consulted: 12 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/22344