English Dictionary

violinist argument

固有名詞

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

日本語の意味

（哲学）中絶の権利を支持するための議論の一例。稀な血液型を持つ人物が、人質として有名な意識不明のヴァイオリニストに繋がれてしまい、接続を解除すればヴァイオリニストが死に、接続を続ければ中絶に類する体験を強制されるという思考実験に基づく議論で、被験者には自らの体からヴァイオリニストを切り離す権利が認められるとする主張です。

At the conference, the philosopher presented a surprising defense of the violinist argument, recounting the kidnapped donor thought experiment to make her point.

会議でその哲学者は、希少な血液型の人が誘拐され、致命的な腎疾患を抱える無意識のバイオリニストにつながれるという有名な思考実験に基づく中絶の権利を擁護する議論を意外にも擁護した。

意味（1）

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

the violinist argument （ canonical ）