PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fetus
Document Summary
The sanctity of human life account: human life has great moral worth. Killing is wrong because it ends biological human life. Marquis main argument: premise 1: killing a normal adult is presumptively wrong when it deprives him/her of a future like ours (flo thoery) (future like ours theory) [pleasure, intellectual stimulation, welcome experiences, (1) the considered judgment argument. Those facing premature death tend to regard their untimely death as a terrible misfortune: (2) the worst of crimes argument. flo explains why we regard killing as the worst of crimes (3) the appeal to cases argument. flo yields the correct answer in many life-and-death cases: two cases. Flo explains why it is not wrong for a doctor to end the life of someone permanently. Flo explains why it is wrong for a doctor to end the life of someone temporarily unconscious unconscious. Flo explains why it is not wrong for doctor to carry out active voluntary euthanasia.
