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Life and death, Power over

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Ethics
Punishment
Freedom
Free will and determinism
Liberty

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Images about Life and death, Power over

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  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.

Works from the collections

7 works

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    The law of life and death / Elizabeth Price Foley.

    Foley, Elizabeth Price. | Date: 2011
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    Menschenbilder und Wissenschaftskulturen : Studien aus dem Marsilius-Projekt "Menschenbild und Menschenwüerde" / Herausgegeben von Frank Martin Brunn, Claus R. Bartram, Thomas Fuchs.

    | Date: c2011
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    The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum : Upon 1. Comforts against death. 2. Patience under pain. 3. The cure of discontent. 4. The government of the passions. 5. The chief end of Man. Between master and sophister.

    Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Date: 1683
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    Death or disability? : the 'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children / Dominic Wilkinson.

    Wilkinson, Dominic. | Date: 2013
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    Taking life : three theories on the ethics of killing / Torbjörn Tännsjö.

    Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946- | Date: [2015]

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Ethics, Medical

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