HPSC1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Virtue Ethics, Gastrulation, Rationality
24 May 2018
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Lecture 5
Personhood: in Kantian and virtue ethics
- Focuses on the importance of rationality and developing a good moral character
- eer treat persos solel as eas ut also as eds i theseles
- Following duty and fostering moral virtues through practice
- Features of the person are the seat of morality
- Capacity to think and act rationally
- BUT what is a person?
Why is it important?
1) Controversial issues about killing and letting die
2) Treatment of nonhuman animals
- Depend on getting straight about the concept of a person
- The destrutio of a perso is rog. If the hospital is o fire hat justifies our deisio
to rescue the patients before the hospital cat and the animals in the la?
Can science tell us?
o Human development
Fertilisation (a new entity/genome is created)
Implantation (pregnancy commences)
Gastrulation (individual physical identity is acquired, circa day 14)
Quickening (foetus can be felt moving, around day 120)
• EEG activation (human-specific brainwave patterns begin 24-27 eeks, ≠ osiousess
which maybe as late as 7th month when a significant number of neural connections
have been formed)
• Viability (foetus can theoretically survive on its own, used to be around 28 weeks when
the respiratory system developed, but with technology approx. 25 weeks)
• Birth (acquisition of independent breathing, independent location in space)
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Document Summary
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