Philosophy 2700F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Practical Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Normative Ethics
31 Dec 2018
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2700 ethics and value theory monday november 28, 2016. Review of exam content (see final exam handout) What kinds of policies should our society seek to enact or abide by. Canada has a very liberal law; government will pay for this up to a certain number of weeks. Two central factors: moral status of the fetus **more focus on this issue** Individuals to which we have direct moral obligations. Once you figure out whether the fetus is a moral being, then the question of abortion become very obvious. Discussion of abortion quite often ignores many factors that are essential to its morality: virtue theorists would identify this quite easily. In the earlier stages of the pregnancy, the arguments do not have to be as strong to end pregnancy. If yes, abortion would be destroying this possibility. There are very conservative and very liberal views (different degrees of each)
