Divergences between normativity and factuality in the work „Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens“

Abstract

The following contribution is an attempt to analyze the work Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens written by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche in 1920. The topic of the article is the secularization of medical ethics and the conflict with theology and its concept of natural law.

Keywords

• Divergences
• between
• normativity
• factuality
• work
• „Die
• Freigabe
• Vernichtung
• lebensunwerten
• Lebens“