PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Daniel Callahan, Grater, Social Issue

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

Document Summary

Health (who): health is a state of complete physical, mental, (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (cid:1) He complains that the concept of health is an overly general concept on a par with concepts such as truth , happiness , Love , good , etc: compare to impossible concepts to define, general but not useless or meaningless. Considers some main objections against the who definition of health: has to do with the link that who makes between health and (cid:1) peace. We do not have any historical evidence that health contributes to peace in anyway. Healthy nation is not necessarily peaceful nation vice versa. Peace health and war : the who definition of health is too vague and too broad. Definition is not workable b/c not specific. Another consequence of equating all social injustice with. Such as war, crime, social unrest, as illness, we turn health" into a normative concept.