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  1. Governing [through] Autonomy. The Moral and Legal Limits of “Soft Paternalism”.Bijan Fateh-Moghadam & Thomas Gutmann - 2014 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (3):383-397.
    Legal restrictions of the right to self-determination increasingly pretend to be compatible with the liberal concept of autonomy: they act upon a ‘soft’ or autonomy-orientated paternalistic rationale. Conventional liberal critique of paternalism turns out to be insensitive to the intricate normative problems following from ‘soft’ or ‘libertarian’ paternalism. In fact, these autonomy-oriented forms of paternalism could actually be even more problematic and may infringe liberty rights even more intensely than hard paternalistic regulation. This paper contributes to the systematic differentiation of (...)
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    (1 other version)One’s own death – legal and ethical dimensions of patient autonomy and the protection of life.Thomas Gutmann - 2002 - Ethik in der Medizin 14 (3):170-185.
    Definition of the problem. Voluntary active euthanasia is, in certain circumstances, morally permissible and should be permitted by law. Autonomous persons may have a fundamental interest in experiencing ”death in dignity” in accordance with their own preferences. This interest is protected by the concept of human dignity assumed by German law. Some prerequisites being met, the moral and legal autonomy right to determine the time and manner of one’s own death includes a right to secure active euthanasia from a willing (...)
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    Struktur und Funktion der Menschenwürde als Rechtsbegriff.Thomas Gutmann - 2014 - Angewandte Philosophie. Eine Internationale Zeitschrift 1 (1):49-74.
    Human dignity defines the foundation of mutual respect between persons in the law. In German constitutional law it defends a realm of individual freedom and inviolable protection against the interests of the collective. Dignity as a legal concept is not a good to be balanced or weighed against other goods, but a prohibition norm, not a reason but a constraint, thus guaranteeing a non-consequentialist and especially a non-utilitarian understanding of basic rights.
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    (1 other version)Happiness and Law.Kurt Bayertz & Thomas Gutmann - 2012 - Ratio Juris 25 (2):236-246.
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    Philosophie aktuell – Organtransplantation II: Aufklärung und Vertrauen. Gibt es eine moralische Pflicht zur Organspende? – Organtransplantation und Aufklärung – Achtung der Autonomie gegenüber Organspendern? – Vertrauen ist gut? Mitnichten immer!Andrea Esser, Daniel Kersting, Thomas Gutmann, Theda Rehbock & Peter Dabrock - 2013 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (1):137-146.
    Dealing with the reform of the Transplantation Law, the first issue of the new rubric “Philosophie aktuell” met with strong and lively interest from our readers. Subsequent to this discussion a growing number of reports were published dealing with violations of mandatory rules of conduct in transplantation medicine. Therefore the topic is revisited here from the slightly different vantage point “organ transplantation II: elucidation and confidence”.
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    Medizinische Ethik und Organtransplantation.Thomas Gutmann - 1998 - Ethik in der Medizin 10 (1):58-67.
    During the last two decades a broad and intensive discussion has taken place in the field of medical ethics. Especially in the English-speaking countries, “Biomedical Ethics” have developed as a part of secular, philosophical moral theory. Two ethical problems in organ transplantation – living organ donation and organ allocation – illustrate that this transition reflects both the complex ethical questions raised by rapid changes in the biological sciences and in health care, and the fact that traditional Hippocratic ethics have proven (...)
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    Menschenwürde, Selbstbestimmung und Pluralismus: Zwischen sittlicher Vorgabe und deontologischer Konstruktion.Thomas Gutmann & Michael Quante - 2017 - Archiv Fuer Rechts Und Sozialphilosphie 103 (3):322-336.
    The notion of human dignity fulfils different normative functions, making demands on heterogeneous resources for justification. After a short summary of Kant’s concept of dignity and its meta-ethica/ content which defines “Kantianism”, we will deal with three problematic aspects of the Kantian concept of dignity and provide a sketch of its reception in the German Constitution. Then we will present an ascriptivistic concept as an alternative to the Kantian one and discuss its limitations.
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    „Nature, red in tooth and claw“.Thomas Gutmann - 2015 - Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 101 (4):577-588.
    Medical law and Biopolitics shed specific light on the relationship of subject and power/violence in legal contexts. For our species, medicine is an essential endeavour vis-à-vis nature which is „red in tooth and claw“. Medicine, however, is driven by autopoietic systemic imperatives and marked by relations of domination. Guaranteeing robust individual rights and legal powers is a remedy against both.
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  9. (1 other version)Nietzsches" Wille zur Macht" im Werk Michel Foucaults.Thomas Gutmann - 1998 - Nietzsche Studien 27:377-419.
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  10. Voluntary consent.Thomas Gutmann - 2017 - In Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Würde und Autonomie. Überlegungen zur Kantischen Tradition.Thomas Gutmann - 2010 - Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 15 (1):3-34.
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