HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Asteroid Family, Harvard Divinity School, Relativism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4107
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

Joseph fletcher"s theory: talked about this between 1966-1977 when divorce and abortion laws, drug culture, hippie time. Fletcher talked about how euthanasia could be good. He becomes president of the euthanasia society of america and taught at harvard. Fletcher rejects 2 extremes: antinomianism and legalism. Dismisses legalism (obedience to all code laws). Do not follow the law if it is rigid and oppressive. Dismisses antinomianism (cid:894)you do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to follo(cid:449) a(cid:374)y rules or a(cid:374)y (cid:272)odes of a(cid:374)y ki(cid:374)d(cid:895). Joseph flet(cid:272)her"s third (cid:449)ay: i a(cid:373) goi(cid:374)g to reje(cid:272)t a(cid:271)solutes of all ki(cid:374)d (cid:449)hether they are religious or secular. Should base everything on situations situation ethics. : your morality depends on the circumstances the individual finds themselves in. Some people were against fletcher because they remembered what adolf hitler did with euthanasia. Non-voluntary: not sure if the patient wanted to die. Involuntary: patient does not want to die: agapic love. Lo(cid:448)e should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e restri(cid:272)ted; it should (cid:271)e i(cid:374) the situatio(cid:374).