RE -- Life and Death (Origin and sanctity of life)
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- Created on: 21-10-18 15:29
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- RE -- life and death (Origin and sanctity of life)
- Medical ethics
- Some medical issues contradict religious beliefs
- Religious people often believe life is sacred
- Key concepts
- Sanctity of life vs quality of life
- Natural law
- Playing God
- Hippocratic oath
- Natural Law
- Says God made the world exactly how he wanted
- This means they believe the right action is always the natural thing
- Doctrine of Double Effect
- When an action has two results
- One intended result and one 'side effect'
- This gets around some difficult ethical problems in Natural Law
- Euthanasia
- Killing someone who is terminally ill
- Hippocratic oath
- It is a promise doctors make before practising
- it is a promise to promote health and not to use their skill to harm
- "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life"
- "The health and wellbeing of my patient will be my first consideration"
- 'Sanctity of life'
- Human life has a particular value, it is sacred or holy
- God made humans in a special way and they have a soul, separating us from all other life
- 'quality of life'
- A secular argument against sanctity of life
- Claims that the value in life comes from its quality
- Speciesm
- Discrimination against other animals
- Utilitarianism
- An ethical theory which judges an action based on whether it maximises happiness for the majority
- "the spirit returns to God who gave it"
- "Life -- a precious gift from God"
- Non-religious beliefs
- Evolution disagrees with it
- Suggests humans have no special value
- No different to animals
- Peter Singer
- Utilitarian
- Says we speciesist if we give more value to human life then animals
- Humanists
- Defend each persons right to their values
- uphold the right to life, but their decision when pointless suffering
- Evolution disagrees with it
- God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
- “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[a] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Medical ethics
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