PHIL 1030 Lecture 5: phil. 1030 5

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1030
• Professor: howardhewitt

Document Summary

All living individual human beings have capacity of personhood. All things that have capacity p have a right to life. All human beings have a right to life. Capacity of personhood capacity for thinking in the broadest sense no matter how developed it is, on whether it is blocked. *rational thinker or can become a rational thinker. Boo(cid:374)i(cid:374)"s (cid:272)ou(cid:374)terargu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t to p(cid:1005: severely deformed fetuses, accident victim higher brain destroyed, but bio life continues. 1 and 2 are both living, but lack capacity of personhood. Species essence says blocked response which denies that 1 and 2 above are counter examples. 1 and 2 both have capacity p, but it is just blocked. Narrow possibility what can happen given the physical facts and the laws of nature as they are. Broad possibility any state of affairs that can be described without contradiction (too broad so too many things listed under it)