PHL283H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reconsideration Of A Motion, Natural Kind, Homo Sapiens
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1st lecture biomedical ethics, publically applying private ethics. 2nd lecture paternalism in medical decision-making: communication, competency, consent, culture all require it. 3rd lecture to demonstrate why paternalism is necessary in morally managing medical information: the concepts of privacy and truth, divided into the following sections: I want to examine the concept of medical truth-telling in light of a pragmatic theory of truth. Truth is not about getting things right, but about getting things done. The sun is at the center (it doesn"t move) and the earth is moving around. If we are not the center, then we are not center to god. Darwin there was an essence in homo sapiens that differentiate you from the rest of the world. There was an origin of species but human has always been it is a human process. Copernicus and darwin both are like freud: if humanity is a natural kind, if we do have an essence that does not change (as.
