PHIL226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personal Rule, Paternalism, Rationality
3 Aug 2016
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Principle = fundamental standard of conduct from which many other moral standards and judgments draw support for their defines and standing; serve as analytical framework. What are the 3 principles that compose the framework of bioethics: respect for autonomy, beneficence. Justice: distributive justice - fair, equitable, appropriate distribution in society determined by justified norms of distribution that structure part of the terms of social cooperation; ex. Re: primary social goods - economic goods, fundamental political rights. Utilitarian theory - views economic justice as one among a number of problems concerning how to maximize value; says ideal economic distribution is any arrangement that would have this maximizing effect. Autonomy = personal rule of the self by adequate understanding while remaining free from controlling interferences by others and from personal limitations that prevent choice (beauchamp et al 2008, 22) We want to be in charge of our own lives, pursuing values that we ourselves have selected.
