PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blood Transfusion, Primum Non Nocere, Surrogacy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Gervais Yamb Desire

Document Summary

Part i: bioethics: origins, moral foundations and ethical approaches. General norms for guidance and evaluation of conduct (beauchamp & childress, p. 1) Normative ethics is also the search for, and justification of, moral standards, or norms (vaughn, p. 4). Only need to give one definition for the exam. Normative ethics deals with those questions (beauchamp & childress, p. 1). Two types of non-normative ethics : 1) descriptive ethics and 2) metaethics. 1- descriptive ethics: is the factual investigation of moral beliefs and conduct (beauchamp & childress, p. 2). Using critical mind and philosophy to investigate bioethical issues. Descriptive ethics is the study of morality using the methodology science. Its purpose is to investigate the empirical facts of morality (the actual beliefs, behaviors, and practices that constitute people"s moral experience (vaughn, p. 4). Uses scientific techniques to study how people reason and act.