PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Reward System, Intuit, Hedonism
11 Feb 2014
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Policy implication -- if addicts are compelled to take drugs, then the drugs should be illegal. Rehabilitation - should rehab be obligatory, what kinds are effective. Moral implications - are addicts responsible for their actions. Autonomy implications - can they act autonomously with their drug of choice, do they deserve the principle of respect. Motivation - does it tell us something about how we make decision, is it relevant to how we select our moral theories. Addicts say they wish to a stain, but they fail to do so. Autonomy - ability to live the life one selects for oneself. What matters is the process by which they make those decision. Disease - picks out distinction between normal and abnormal function between a brain, body, limb, etc. Vague because food and oxygen cause effect too. Addiction is a brain state or function caused by an adaption from drug use.
