PHI 1101 Lecture 17: phil LEC17 - Fri, Nov 21

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

Document Summary

A well-established moral principle is that one is morally justified in using deadly force in self-defense (analogous case) when on is threatened with death or great pain from on assailant (target features). A disease such as terminal cancer can also threaten one with death or great pain. So, suicide a use of deadly force (subject case) must sometimes be morally justified when it is an act of self-defense against an assailant (terminal disease) that threatens with death or great pain. List of similarities: being threatened with death in both cases, being threatened with great pain which can be debilitating and dehumanizing in both cases. If we agree that both cases are cases of self-defense, then we can apply the same principle of moral permissibility. List of dissimilarities: suicide/assisted suicide is not quite the same as killing another human being in self-defense, suicide and assisted suicide are two different things. X% of the observed fs are gs.