PHI 1370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sukha
22 Mar 2016
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Conscience, in professional training, nurses have been asked to think in terms like: what if this person were my mother? . Conscience expresses the basic values that underlie right and wrong, and this is somehow inbuilt though socially bound. Moral choice: preferable to individual conscience because it can provide benchmarks and codes of contact, moral can be justified while conscience is more dificult. Moral choice tens to be personal and intuitive but in the professional realm to avoid being frivolous, theres moral choices must be objectively argued (without reference to faith, personal belief, or opinion. Natural law: for many people an appeal to conscience means an appeal to a vague sense of what is natural and right. Natural law as a system is teleological in character, for the philosopher everything has a purpose (telos) Natural is correlated with what is coog, unnatural, evil.
