Reconsidering Kantian arguments against organ selling

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• 作者：Zümrüt Alpinar-Şencan
• 关键词：Body parts ; Commodification ; Dignity ; Immanuel Kant ; Market price ; Organs ; Organ donation ; Organ selling
• 刊名：Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：1
• 页码：21-31
• 全文大小：420 KB
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• 作者单位：Zümrüt Alpinar-Şencan (1)
  
  1. Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Pestalozzistrasse 24, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland
  
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Theory of Medicine and Bioethics
  Medical Law
  Ethics
  History of Medicine
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8633

文摘

Referring to Kant’s arguments addressing the moral relationship between our bodies and ourselves is quite common in contemporary debate about organ selling, although he does not provide us with any specific arguments related to this debate. It is widely argued that the most promising way to show the moral impermissibility of organ selling is to mount an argument on Kantian grounds. This paper asks whether it is possible to argue coherently against organ selling in a Kantian framework. It will be shown that by mounting the argument on Kantian grounds no compelling argument can be given against sale of organs, either because the arguments apply to donation of organs, too, or the arguments are not convincing for other independent reasons. In the first section, it will be argued that donation and selling are not distinguishable in a Kantian framework, since the concern about commodification of the body and its parts shall be raised by both actions. In the second section, some contemporary accounts inspired by Kant will be presented and discussed separately. It will be argued that the reasons for promoting organ donation while arguing against selling clash with each other in an unconvincing way.