PHIL 2805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bacon, 18 Months, Intelligence Quotient
6 Jan 2021
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Phil 2805 lecture 7 september 29, 2020 competence. Overview: competence (freedman, case: delores heston, children and decision-making (kenny et al. , case: h . Elements of informed consent: competence must establish this first in a medical encounter, disclosure, understanding, voluntariness, token consent. Someone could intervene in your own best interests. The limits to what we think are acceptable as intervention by other people are dependent on what we can do during the decision-making process at that time. We don"t think people in general can protect us from our decision (or that they can intervene) because we believe it is our decision to make and that we know our best interests. Competence draws the line between justified and unjustified intervention during decision-making process. [a] very great wrong is perpetrated in not making the attempt to recognize competence when it is present, albeit veiled. The most serious harm we can visit upon a human being is to tell [them] that.
