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Thu 27 Aug, 2015 09:38 am
Such as the idea:
Plato wrote: "Mentally and physically ill persons should be left to death; they do not have the right to live. "
http://www.life.org.nz/euthanasia/abouteuthanasia/history-euthanasia1/
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George Ellis has worked for many decades on anisotropic cosmologies (Bianchi models) and inhomogeneous universes, and on the philosophy of cosmology.[3] He is currently writing on the emergence of complexity, and the way this is enabled by top down causation in the hierarchy of complexity.[4]
In terms of philosophy of science, Ellis is a
Platonist.[5]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._R._Ellis
Platonism, rendered as a proper noun, (i.e. with a capital P wherever it appears in a sentence) is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. In narrower usage, platonism, rendered as a common noun (with a lower case 'p', subject to sentence case), refers to the philosophy that affirms the existence of abstract objects, which are asserted to "exist" in a "third realm" distinct both from the sensible external world and from the internal world of consciousness, and is the opposite of nominalism (with a lower case "n"). Lower case "platonists" need not accept any of the doctrines of Plato.
I don't think Ellis supports putting the sick to death.
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