Stamatina Liosi, a PhD student and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has just contributed a piece to the latest edition of Philosophy Now magazine, issue 126, June/July 2018.
Philosophy Now aims to showcase the discipline as exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible. The magazine began in 1991 and is now the most widely read philosophy periodical in the English language.
Stamatina’s article is entitled ‘Our Duty to the Dead’ and enlists the help of philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to discover why we have a duty to treat the dead with dignity.
‘For those of us who think that intuitions or widely held beliefs aren’t enough to explain why things should be done in a certain way, deeper reasons must be found,’ explains Stamatina in the article. ‘So let’s ask ourselves, why do we have the duty to treat the dead with dignity?’
The full piece can be accessed here:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/126/Our_Duty_to_the_Dead