PHIL 1740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neurology, Chemotherapy, Lumpectomy
19 Apr 2016
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Our gut, personal experience, instinct (biological), previous experience (personal/cultural values, etc. ) What might be a problem with having intuitions: they come from sources that cause us to be biased, they"re not argumentative/reason-based sources. You are moral, as long as you intend to do the right thing. Categorical imperatives: first formulation: act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law . The ends do not justify the means! (you can"t just use people as means) What happens when 2 maxims come up against each other? (ex. never lie vs. never kill) (cid:1) Paternalism sake of that person informed consent because he knows everything: ex. He ended up being paralyzed from the waist down. The doctor made the decision which the patient then disagreed with (took him to court) You need to make sure the patient fully: then, consent laws were changed from it being purely understands the procedure informative.
