PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Virtue Ethics, Paternalism, Feminist Ethics
23 Apr 2016
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And rules to problems od therapeutic practice, health care delivery and medical and biological research. The beginning of bioethics dates back to the fifth century bc with the. Hippocratic oath which is the first code of ethics for health care professionals. Bioethics and the law, a close relationship. On the one hand, the law defines the social boundaries and conditions for health care delivery. 1989: always claimed that his reasons were moral. What is it about ethics that makes it important for us to know about it: there is a dimension in our life that holds that duty of what we ought to do. Some people believe that what is right and wrong (good and bad) depends upon how they feel about it. These people share a non-cognitivist-meta-ethical position, also known as ethical non-cognitivism. Ethical non-cognitivism argues that no matter how much logic or reasoning (based on knowledge) you use, you can never settle a disagreement on what is right.
