PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Euthanasia
1 Jul 2014
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6 of the 9 practise questions- 20 minutes per question. Covers weeks 1-3- lectures, tutorials, textbook and next week"s lectures and readings. His argument: we should have a right to die when and how we decide. Individual rights view- we have a right to do anything we like provided that there are no good reasons for prohibiting that action . Possible objections: religious: not the owners of our lives-god is. Response: he says we cannot create laws or prohibitions based solely on this pov: moral theories: a)rights-based theory= we all have a right to life. N. s response: every right you have, you can waive them (ex, waive the right to privacy: utilitarianism: the actions that you follow should be the ones that affect the most amount of people. The morality of an action is determines by the overall good or bad consequences for everyone. Response: utilitarianism works with active euthanasia: practical objections: a) physicians do not agree with euthanasia.
