Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deontological Ethics, Prima Facie, Premarital Sex
5 Mar 2016
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First, do not harm. Non maleficence do no harm. Beneficence benefit others: help people. Bioethics study of the ethical dimensions of medicine and biological science. Ethical theories (50% of the midterm) Help us determine: 1) which actions are obligatory, 2) permitted, 3) prohibited. You cannot talk about ethics without knowing anything about ethical theory. Applied ethics practical or actual issues. Normative ethics what you ought to do, what is right. Are they rational or based on emotions: how should we understand right and wrong. Purpose of man justice and right thinking. There are better and worse ways to be constituted as a person. Reason using the spirit to control the passion. Darwin make more humans. An action is morally right if and only if it produces the best consequences out of all alternative actions. An action is morally right if and only if that action creates more happiness than any other alternative. Happiness = pleasure in the absence of pain.
