Human Dignity and Bioethics

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Notes
1
Daniel P. Sulmasy, “Death, Dignity, and the Theory of Value,” Ethical Perspectives
9 (2002): 103-118, reprinted in Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low
Countries, ed. Paul Schotsmans and Tom Meulenbergs (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters,
2005), pp. 95-119.
2
Ruth Macklin, “Dignity is a Useless Concept,” BMJ 327 (2003): 1419-1420.
3
Charles Trinkaus, “The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man,” in Dictionary
of the History of Ideas, vol. 4, ed. Philip P. Weiner (New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1973), pp. 136-147; Daniel P. Sulmasy, “Death with Dignity: What Does it
Mean?” Josephinum Journal of Theology 4 (1997): 13-24.
4
Cicero, De Inventione I.166.
5
Miriam T. Griffin and E. Margaret Atkins, “Notes on Translation,” in Cicero: On
Duties (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. xlvi-xlvii.
6
Cicero, De Officiis I.106, trans. Walter Miller (New York: Macmillan, 1913), pp.
106-109.
7
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 10, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991), pp. 63-64.
8
Immanuel Kant, “The Metaphysics of Morals, Part II: The Metaphysical Principles
of Virtue,” Ak419-420, in Kant, Ethical Philosophy, trans. James W. Ellington
(Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett, 1983), pp. 80-81.
9
Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 434, trans. James
W. Ellington (Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett, 1981), p. 40.
10
Ibid.
11
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant’s Moral Theory (Ithaca,
New York: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 43.
12
In my essay, “Dignity and the Human as a Natural Kind,” included in Health
and Human Flourishing, ed. Carol R. Taylor and Roberto Dell’Oro (Washington,
D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006), pp. 71-87, I called this the “derivative”
sense of dignity. However, some commentators, especially those who would
be counted as using the word this way, have worried that “derivative” sounds less
“dignified” than is appropriate.
13
Timothy E. Quill, “Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making,”
New England Journal of Medicine 324 (1991): 691-694.
14
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, “Human Dignity in the Nazi era: Implications for Contemporary
Bioethics,” BMC Medical Ethics 7 (2006): E2.
15
Leon R. Kass, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
(San Francisco, California: Encounter Books, 2002), pp. 231-256.
16
See Noah M. Lemos, “Value Theory,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,
ed. Robert Audi (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 830-831;
also Michael J. Zimmerman, “Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value,” Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (2004 edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta, available online at http://
plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-intrinsic-extrinsic/. The standard views either
distinguish intrinsic from instrumental values, or intrinsic from extrinsic values.