PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism, Bioethics
27 Feb 2017
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Feminism: the moral doctrine which suggests that a person"s sex,or any other superficial characteristic, should not be a determining factor in their access to political, economic, cultural or social goods. Feminist bioethics isn"t about proportioning the aforementioned goods it makes a must more powerful theoretical claim. It plays on the claim that in order to understand feminist bioethics, you have to understand what"s wrong with traditional ethics. Despite all the ways that traditional views differ, they have in common the belief that ethics can be boiled down to some set of rationally arrived at procedures for decision- making. All of the theories have us deal with moral situations with abstract principles/rules/ structures of thought, and this is problematic because it hides/ignores so much. Traditional theories are taken to be unsatisfactory/alienating; most of the theories reflect and support explicitly gender-biased and often blatantly misogynist values. The most common feminist bioethical concerns are:
