Ethics Course on the Life-and-Death Question: Second Assignment — On the Value of Life
Choose one of the following four questions for discussion: 1. Is life itself valuable, or is life merely a necessary condition for other values? 2. If life itself is valuable, why? What kind of value does life have? 3. If it is precisely life itself that is valuable, does that mean all living beings possess value equally? 4. If only certain beings have value, what is the basis for drawing such a limit? Is life itself valuable, or is life merely a necessary condition for other values? It is worth noting that these four questions are arranged in a progressive sequence: if one does not accept the previous position, then…
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