PHI 1700H Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Robert Latimer, Conjoined Twins, Pickup Truck
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Chapter 1: what is morality: the problem of definition, moral philosophy, moral philosophy: the study of what morality is and what it requires of us, socrates said it"s about how we ought to live and why. It"s unethical to kill person a to save person b. If we can benefit someone without harming anyone else, we ought to do so. Transplanting the organs would benefit the other children without harming. It is wrong to use people as means to other people"s ends. 1: taking theresa"s organs would be using her to benefit the other children. If we were using them against her wishes, then that would violate her autonomy. Chapter 1: what is morality: but she has no preferences about anything, nor has she ever had any, the argument from he wrongness of killing. It is wrong to kill one person to save another.
