PHL 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Virtue Ethics, Eudaimonia, Bioethics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 302
• Professor: David Rondel

Document Summary

Ethics in health care week 2- day 2. Reading a book to learn about bioethics. Taking a course in university to get a degree. Exercising to lose weight we consider end that we strive for while we do things for the sake of something else, there must be an ultimate goal, something valued for its own sake. Fo(cid:396) utilita(cid:396)ia(cid:374)"s happiness is synonymous with pleasure. Having the right feelings (cid:862)at the (cid:396)ight ti(cid:373)es, (cid:449)ith reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the (cid:396)ight (cid:373)oti(cid:448)e, a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) the (cid:396)ight (cid:449)a(cid:455)(cid:863) And to act on those feelings also in the right way and. A(cid:396)istotle asks us to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept that hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs ha(cid:448)e a purpose (acorns, tadpoles, and rocks) we do not know what something is until we have grasped its function. We should ai(cid:373) fo(cid:396) the (cid:862)(cid:373)ea(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s. The intermediate state between excess and deficiency.