[RELG 2650] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (28 pages long!)

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Religion-General Religion
• Course: RELG 2650
• Professor: Childress James

Document Summary

*** bring a blue (or green) exam book you can purchase one or two at the uva bookstore *** All of the questions on the objective part of the examination will be drawn from the materials that. Follow; the questions may be presented in very different ways, but if you know all of the points below, you. Will know the content that will be covered on this part of the examination. : principles and metaphors in biomedical ethics. Distinguish among absolute, prima facie, and relative principles. Absolute: these are unconditionally binding, they are things you have to do or not do. So if freedom of speech were an absolute right, then under no circumstances whatsoever would be justified ethically in curtailing anyone"s speech. Prima facie moral right, duty, or principle is one that holds unless some other moral right, duty, principle is competing in the situation in question and is more "weighty" -- a metaphor, but a helpful one.