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一个社会对其成员重视和承认的程度,首先表现为这个社会如何对待其成员中的弱者和受歧视的人。而在每个社会遭受歧视的人中,无疑也包括那些由于先天或后天的缘故患有精神上或肉体上的疾病而需要特别照顾的人。1989年以来,首先是这一社会群体的代言人,对他们的遭遇提出了强烈的抗议。而他们的抗议,又引发了德国舆论界对澳大利亚哲学家彼得·辛格的关注。特别是辛格关于可以对残疾人(既包括先天不足的婴儿,也包括老年人)施行强制性安乐死的论述,点燃了论战的烽火,更激起了一部分人的强烈抗议。残疾人的代盲人指出,辛格的“实用伦理学”不仅是对“残疾人”,而且从根本上讲是对人的错误认识。
The extent to which a society values and recognizes its members begins with how the society treats the weaker and the discriminated among its members. There is no doubt that among those who suffer discrimination in every society, those who need special care due to mental or physical diseases due to innate or acquired causes are undoubtedly included as well. Since 1989, above all, the spokespersons of this social group have offered strong protests about what happened to them. And their protests sparked the German media attention to Australian philosopher Peter Singh. In particular, Singh’s essay on compulsory euthanasia of persons with disabilities (including those with congenitally deficient infants, but also the elderly) ignited the flames of the controversy and even provoked a strong protest from some people. The disability blind people pointed out that Singh’s “Practical Ethics” is not only for “disabled people”, but also fundamentally wrong people’s understanding.