Religious Studies 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dornier Do X, Kantian Ethics, Ethics
7 Feb 2017
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The killing of a person by the person"s own hand with the help of a physician. Right to die - feb th 2015. Yes and no -- it depends: conservatives. As stated above, the question concerns private morality. And one could be a liberal with respect to this question, and a conservative with respect to the former - vice versa. 17th and 18th century - enlighten-- the industrial revolution: historical picot or a state of an individual. Slogans: dare to know, take nobody"s word for it. Moral philosophy (kantian ethics: the unconditional value of a good will. Doing ones duty for the sake of duty: the distinction between hypothetical There might be another motive: acting for the sake of duty. Two of kant"s famous categorical imperatives: hypothetical imperatives, do x, if (because) you have goal y. Prudential reasoning -- nothing to do with reality.
