CAS PH 251 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Epistemology, Informed Consent, Eugenics
21 Nov 2018
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3 branches of philosophy: all flow downwards (with metaphysics being the major branch, branches, 1. Essentially, what are the limitations and structures of knowledge: 3. Ethics deals with how we should behave or what we should do: 3 subcomponents (that function in levels moving downwards chronologically, 1. Meta ethics concerning meta problems in ethics (ex: moral properties in the world: 2. Normative ethics developing moral and ethical frameworks in how to act: 3. Applied ethics applying moral frameworks to particular cases. Ivf solves that, pleasure there are other way of stimulating this). Utilitarianism is an impartial moral theory: essentially states that all interests must be considered equally regardless if some beings" interests have greater weight than others. Important to realize that some interests are more important than others: 3. Utilitarianism as a form of hedonism: hedonism the only thing that is valuable is happiness while the only thing that is not is pain, j. s.
