CRM/LAW C10 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Equal Rights Amendment, Feminist Theory, Title X
5 Oct 2018
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Maximize utility and collective welfare/emphasize government action for common good. All values cannot be captured by a common currency of value. Minimize governmental action, coercion, and moral judgment. To act freely is to act autonomously, according to the law i give myself . To act freely is to choose the end itself, for its own sake . Immanuel kant: supreme principle of morality and pure practical reason . Connection between capacity for reason and capacity for freedom. What matters is the motive: moral duty and doing the right thing. Respect human dignity, what matters is motive, the categorical imperative. Morality, human dignity, and respect for persons. When a birth and genetic mother do not coincide in one woman, she who intended to procreate the child is the natural parent. State should not interfere with consensual, bargained-for-decisions to procreate through private contracts. Protect the fundamental right to procreate, parent, and form a family.
