PHIL 235 Lecture 1: PHIL 235 Lecture : PHIL 235 Lecture

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 235
• Professor: Jack Ornstein

Document Summary

It is often just bad luck. illegal acts. The branch of ethics that deals with the meaning of ethical words is: language ethics: normative ethics, meta-ethics, ethical cognitivism. For the purposes of this course, we understand the relationship between ethics and. After all, it is my body and my health at stake. : the friendship model, the agency model, the paternalistic model, the contractual model, the fiduciary model. Since there are some debates that will never end (such as the abortion debate), we can be sure that ethical relativism is the correct meta-ethical theory (1 points: true, false. Ross believed that ethics was best described by a pluralistic deontology, meaning that we have to balance prima facie duties. According to hardwig, it can be difficult in some cases to identify who should count as the "family" when difficult medical-decisions are being made.