Euthanasia
- Created by: 10shassanali
- Created on: 09-03-16 17:19
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- Euthanasia:
- Utilitarianism:
- ACT:
- Consequentialist: Each situation needs to be assessed
- Hedonic Calculus: More concerned with preventing pain than actual pleasure
- Principle of utility: People affected?
- RULE:
- Mill more likely to support person faced with mental degeneration (Alzheimer's)
- Autonomy: "Over himself, over his mind and body, the individual is sovereign"
- Look at the effects of a change in legalisation
- PREFERENCE:
- Hare: Might rule of non-voluntary as person could be seen to have preference to be alive rather than not
- Tony Bland- It would be best interests to keep him alive in case they can do something for him in the future
- ACT:
- Kantian Ethics:
- Importance of reason: Ignore the feelings of compassion, love and sympathy
- Humans have an intrinsic worth as rational beings
- Kant believes in autonomy- But humans have a duty to protect people who have lost their capacity to reason
- Universability: Contradiction of the will
- Importance of reason: Ignore the feelings of compassion, love and sympathy
- Natural law:
- Stopping Gods's purpose
- Apparent good- May seem the right thing but it does not draw us closer to God gives us sense of moral guilt
- PP- self preservation
- Reason identifies "natural" or "cardinal virtues"- Fortitude- should be shown by people who are suffering greatly
- Situation ethics:
- "Love your neighbour as yourself"
- SE is not antinomian, they have rules or principle, but those can be set aside of love is better served by doing so
- Jesus abolished the law with its commandments and legal claims
- Utilitarianism:
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