PHIL 1050 Chapter Notes -Categorical Imperative, Hypothetical Imperative, Emotivism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: Patricia Sheridan

Document Summary

Moral philosophy: the study of what morality is and what it requires of us, how we should live and why . Normative what ought to be versus descriptive what is . Born with anencephaly, cerebrum and cerebellum missing but can still breathe and have a heartbeat. Low chance of survival so parents requested her organs be transplanted, physicians agreed. Florida law prohibits transplant until donor is dead, by the time she died her organs had deteriorated too much to be used. Ethicists disagreed with parents and physicians, saying that. It"s wrong to use people as means to other peoples ends . It"s unethical to kill person a to save person b . The bene ts principle: if we can bene t someone without harming anyone else, we ought to do so. Parents and physicians: argument: transplanting the organs would bene t the other children without harming theresa, so we should transplant them.