Herman De Dijn, a Spinoza scholar, an emeritus professor.

The Death Treatment.. Herman De Dijn, a Spinoza scholar, responded.. Tom sent a version of the essay, originally titled “Euthanasia on the Sofa,” to Flanders’s leading newspaper and.

Herman De Dijn currently works at the Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture, University of Leuven. Herman does research in Philosophy of Contemporary Culture. HIs current project is.

Today euthanasia is more often granted to people suffering from mental illnesses like chronic depression, schizophrenia, chronic anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder, etc.. This article was written with the assistance of Dr Steven Bieseman and Professor Emeritus Herman De Dijn.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, a blog about euthanasia, assisted suicide, elder abuse, end-of-life care, palliative care. Most recent articles and news from around the world. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Belgium: Experts call for the removal of euthanasia on the grounds of psychological suffering.

How my mother died How my mother died was published by. This article was written with the assistance of Dr Steven Bieseman and Professor Emeritus Herman De Dijn. It was originally published in the Belgian medical journal Artsenkrant.. that there needs to be a broad public debate about the current practice of euthanasia in Belgium and the.

How legalizing euthanasia changed Belgium. The following article was originally published on MercatorNet on May 17, 2013.. They would like to thank Emeritus Professor Herman De Dijn for valuable discussions and Sylvia Statz for advice about translating the text. Notes (1) Burms A. and De Dijn H., De sacraliteit van leven en dood.

In the second part, I try to characterize De Dijn's so-called conservatism with the assistance of a few quotations from the work of Leszek Kolakowski, a Polish philosopher with whom De Dijn feels congenial. In the third part, I make two critical observations concerning De Dijn's position in his book.

A mentally-ill Belgian woman sought euthanasia to escape her problems. The doctors told her, sure, why not? By Tom Mortier PhD Since 2002 a law was passed in Belgium that allowed people to be.

Warren Montag (born March 21, 1952) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is known primarily for his work on twentieth-century French theory, especially Althusser and his circle, as well as his studies of the philosopher Spinoza.

This chapter places Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of practical reasons in the wider context of the contemporary metaethical debate on reasons for action. It explores the key distinction between.

In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? How should we value health? What are.

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between two Worlds: a Reading of Descartes’s “Meditations” (2009) and co-editor with Janet Broughton of A Companion to Descartes (2008).He is especially interested in understanding early modern rationalist thought as the outgrowth of the seventeenth-century collision between the new.