Life and death ethics: Burden of natality and mortality

dc.authorid0000-0002-0791-2163en_US
dc.contributor.authorCoşkun Özüaydın, Bergen
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T20:44:44Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T20:44:44Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.departmentFakülteler, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractBirth is something that has expected by everyone who lived in the past and who currently live. Whether we define our presence in the world as thrownness (geworfenheit) as defined by Heidegger or think that natality is a miracle like Hannah Arendt puts it, it is for sure that being born and having a life are nested one in another. Birth is the thing to which we owe our living existence. When we talk about living things, therefore human beings, an experience which is as definite and unchangeable as being born is death. Although accepting the reality that one who was born and who is living will have an end of his/her life and will face death of which we have no knowledge of what will happen thereafter, might be difficult for the living beings, and despite the fact that human beings have been trying to find the secret to immortality for hundreds of years, the death is, at least for now, something from which there is no escape and is imminent and attached to our existence the same was birth is. Man is born and lives with the certain potential of dying that will happen one day. Birth and death are the simplest, most ordinary and spontaneous facts that happen to a human being. However, this ordinary and simple fact, being born and to...en_US
dc.identifier.citationCoşkun Özüaydın, Bergen. “Life and Death Ethics”, Philosophical Problems in the Contemporary World, (Ed. Dilek Arlı Çil, Nihal Petek Boyacı), Peter Lang, Berlin, 2019, s. 87-106en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3726/b15426
dc.identifier.endpage106en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-631-78552-2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85113235225en_US
dc.identifier.startpage87en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.prg/10.3726/b15426
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/1677
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dc.institutionauthorCoşkun Özüaydın, Bergen
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPeter Langen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophical Problems in the Contemporary Worlden_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryUluslararası Kitapen_US
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universal*
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
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dc.snmzKY05746
dc.titleLife and death ethics: Burden of natality and mortalityen_US
dc.typeBook Part
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