PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Mother Teresa, Speciesism, Dry Cleaning
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Text ronald dworkin: life"s dominion: an argument about abortion and euthanasia. Fetal stem cell research - would it be ethical to use artificially created zygotes for saving lives. The exploration of the moral questions that arise given our biological nature: moral questions. Not a question about how we do behave. Non-religious values human well-being, human integrity, rationality. Type 1 questions about individual belief: the bioethics of everyday life. Not relativism we want to be right in our beliefs. Problem we have reasonable disagreements about what the moral values are and how they can be balanced with one another. Mutual tolerance (just society allows people to live by their core values) What rules should health care professionals (hcps) follow in a pluralistic society. Let patients live by their own reasonable values: exploration. Philosophical exploration, not empirical, not religions, not economic. Intelligent, informed reflection by appeal to philosophical theories, tradition: our biological nature. Many years of helplessness in infancy and childhood.
