İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri

Sayı: 3 1 Haziran 2017
  • Şahin Filiz
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Human Being’s Test of “Long Death” or the Philosophical Value of Euthanasia Discussions

Abstract

Human being is an autonomous, free and conscious living being who is self-conscious and who chooses life and survival over death which ends its existence. Because of the fact that human being is a rational and moral entity, as different from other living beings, it is a selfhood who can distinguish between “good” and “bad” between the time of its birth, “first trauma” in terms of Otto Rank, and its death, “last trauma” in terms of Ernest Becker. Philosophy takes the analysis of, consciously or unconsciously, life between birth and death as a whole and lifehuman relation on as a duty. I did not need to mention “Religion” in the title due to the fact that it is one of the basic subjects of philosophy as the main element of human-life relation, because; evaluation of “death” from only religious perspective leads to a hasty judgment in favour or against “Euthanasia” by excluding many other experiences of life. In fact, because of the fact that it attempts to analyse all the experiences of human life by approaching them as a whole, a philosophical approach would be an appropriate method. People who are stricken with incurable illnesses or suffering, people who the field of medicine debates over -whether they live as a human being or not,are having a process what I call “Long Death” until the point of Euthanasia. Euthanasia, which is known as “merciful”, “good” or “quick” death, is discussed much more than pre-Euthanasia “Long Death”. Due to the fact that prior process is not analysed sufficiently, the discussions which focuses on “Limit of Death” have turned into a holy war between “Proponents of Euthanasia” and “Opponents of Euthanasia”. However; what these two views in common is to ignore long death by confining themselves with the definition of human as mainly a physical life or a biological entity. Because of the fact that they, especially the opponents of euthanasia, develop their arguments by using such a definition of human, all religions, especially Islam, treat human being, which they regard as mainly a spiritual entity, as a living being that “has the minimal biological functions”. Religious theses that human being is holy and therefore life is sacred, are justified by the “short death” of patient whose long death has not been subject to a philosophical analysis, and results of religious thinking against euthanasia are justified by biological definition of human by medical field. The language of religion and medicine are very same. Islamic perspective of euthanasia is being built by the perspective of medical field, and because of the fact that human being has not been approach by the comprehensive language of philosophy; though experience of long death is the main subject of discussion, euthanasia or short death is discussed in detail even though this discussion can be simply concluded by a “yes” or “no”. However, actually, euthanasia is just a result whereas long death is a cause. Debates on euthanasia cause human existence to be caught in the middle between science and religion which speak the same “language” even though their content is different. In return, it becomes imperative for philosophy to analyse human being by “the language of human being” by discussion of both aspect

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Şahin Filiz Bu kişi benim

Yayımlanma Tarihi

1 Haziran 2017

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1 Haziran 2017

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Yıl 2017 Sayı: 3

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APA
Filiz, Ş. (2017). İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri. Akademia Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 3, 120-139. https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM
AMA
1.Filiz Ş. İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri. ASJ. 2017;(3):120-139. https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM
Chicago
Filiz, Şahin. 2017. “İnsanın ‘Uzun Ölüm’le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri”. Akademia Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 3: 120-39. https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM.
EndNote
Filiz Ş (01 Haziran 2017) İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri. Akademia Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 3 120–139.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Filiz, “İnsanın ‘Uzun Ölüm’le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri”, ASJ, sy 3, ss. 120–139, Haz. 2017, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM
ISNAD
Filiz, Şahin. “İnsanın ‘Uzun Ölüm’le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri”. Akademia Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 3 (01 Haziran 2017): 120-139. https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM.
JAMA
1.Filiz Ş. İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri. ASJ. 2017;:120–139.
MLA
Filiz, Şahin. “İnsanın ‘Uzun Ölüm’le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri”. Akademia Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 3, Haziran 2017, ss. 120-39, https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM.
Vancouver
1.Şahin Filiz. İnsanın “Uzun Ölüm”le Sınavı ya da Ötenazi Tartışmalarının Felsefi Değeri. ASJ [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2017;(3):120-39. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA23ZM22PM