PHIL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Golden Rule, Epicureanism, Act Utilitarianism
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Exam 2 study guide - aquinas, epicurus, bentham and mill. One short answer asking to apply the doctrine of double effect or the hedonistic. Calculus to a given moral. (page 44, #14 for dde) (page 68, #1 for hc) The nature of act is good or neutral. Bad effect is not mans to good effect. Yes: choosing to remove the uterus to be saved from cancer if it doesn"t cause the death of the fetus. No: abortion leads to death of fetus and freedom for women. Yes: giving morphine to relieve pain if it doesn"t hasten death. No: giving a lethal injection that causes death to end pain. Bad effect is proportional to good effect. Bad effect is less than or equal to the good effect. Flipping the switch to reroute the train and save 5 lives over 1 passes dde but pushing a fat man to stop it does not.
