[PHI2396] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 101 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Doing what was right was what the group thought was right in the old days. If you acted against the group it was dangerous for yourself and the group as the whole by weakening the communal body. Today ethics is independent of what the groups thinks. Is it really right in itself and to have good reasons for this action. Ethics and morals: will be used interchangeably, historically they were the same thing. The old sense of ethics and morality was relative to the thoughts of the group: what most people do is assumed what is right. Today, (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e a high se(cid:374)se of t(cid:396)uth a(cid:374)d the(cid:396)efo(cid:396)e (cid:449)hat the g(cid:396)oup thi(cid:374)ks is (cid:396)ight is(cid:374)(cid:859)t as important. Taking organs from other species and using them in other species. Genes from other animals inserted into the human genome to improve or perfect the human genome.
