HLTHAGE 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deontological Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Forego

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2A03
• Professor: Stefan Rodde

Document Summary

Monistic ethical theories hold that there is a single ultimate principle of morality. Pluralistic ethical theories hold that there are many basic principles of morality. Primae facie duties (pf duties) these are fundamental ethical obligations they are intuitive they are universally recognized contrasted with Actual duties the duties we have in a particular situation. It is often unclear what our actual duties are. Reasonable people can disagree with what actual duties are. Beneficence to improve the condition of others. Self-improvement- to improve our own condition non-deficiency to not injure others. In our ordinary lives, we often find that the primae facie duties compete and conflict with each other. Our actual duty is what we should do in that particular situation. My actual duty is what i should do in this situation. People who generally make good judgments posses a number of characteristics: A framework for ethical decision making in the biomedical context.