PHIL 2450 Lecture 4: phil lecture 4

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2450
• Professor: Erin Taylor

Document Summary

We have the technology, do we have a moral obligation to give our child the best life: importance of empirical facts (that is, non-philosophical facts) in hard cases! 1. facts about how the ethical labor is divided! how we have divided society into different moral obligations! parents, doctors, judges, all with different jobs/duties! that is, meanings of treatment options/refusal of treatment options! 2. facts about what the bene ts and risks of treatment are! Historical/social context: eugenics: julian savulescu, future of humanity institute at. Best child, that is, the child that is expected to have the best life among all possible children! 65,000 people forced sterilized in 33 states before laws repealed! Carrie buck rst test of the law (buck v. bell 1927)! Diseases are bad because they make life less good! Parents should seek to have the child likeliest to have the best life, or a life at least as good as others!