PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organ Donation, Neurosurgery, Fallacy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Jonathan Miller

Document Summary

Theres quacks/scammers out there preying on the sickspecial juice to cure cancer. )sn"t there doctor obligations to try anything to help the patient? (omo credulus = the believing man (cid:523)prof thinks this is our essence we are emotional beingsemotional ) We have differences!! (cid:498)factuative equality(cid:499) is not what we"re interested in; humans are not the same. Moral claim for equalitiy (valuative, not factual) - aristotle. People aren"t the same in the (cid:498)silly sense(cid:499) factual sense; king vs. We are the same from the valuative sense. All people/things are defined by their function. What you do determines who you are, and your value. You treat equal people equally, and unequal people unequally. Prgamatic= if it works, it is (cid:498)right(cid:499) Water wheel = there are different parts to the wheel but when all the little different parts work the best to their ability, the wheel works perfectly. And so, people are equal in their differences!