PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Forego, Habituation, Human Action
5 Jan 2021
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A framework for ethical decision-making in the bio-medical context. Healthcare practitioners should make decisions in accordance with the following principles: Ethical action and the good life is, is essential for ethical action. We act for the sake of an end. The purpose of ethics is to achieve a good life. If living a good life is something that we ought to do, then understanding what a good life. Ve is a self-interested ethic (contrasting from the other ethics) Ve is the best thing to do for yourself. Virtues are the qualities of a thing which enable it to perform its function well. Virtues = qualities that enable it to achieve it"s purpose (sharp blade, Vices = (dull blade, a loose handle) As a result, there are many human virtues/ vices. Human virtues enable human beings to perform human activities well. Virtue = a settled tendency to act appropriately in a domain of human action/ emotion.
