MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Virtue Ethics, James Childress, Origin Myth
14 Sep 2017
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National commission for protection of human subjects of biomedical and. Separates facts from values: denotology, utilitarianism. Must create foundation from most general and abstract truths. Truth arrive at empirical observation, use of reason, and systematic doubt. Belmont report (1979) guide biomedical research. Developed from 16th century enlightenment period. Age of reason belief in power of reason (cid:498)top-down(cid:499) approaches. Theories (cid:498)foundationalist(cid:499) able to clearly think and process: (cid:498)locus of certitude(cid:499) Self-evident; what is right is doing one(cid:495)s duties are (cid:498)do unto others as you would have otehrs do unto you. (cid:499) Developed (cid:498)categorical imperative(cid:499) (cid:498)act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law or a universal law of nature(cid:499) Maxim stuccinct formuation of the fundamental principles, general truth or. Respect autonomy everyone gets to decide what the moral law is. Treat humanity as an end in itself and never merely as a means.
