PHIL 002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Consequentialism, Henry Fonda, Universalizability
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Abortion deprives fetus of future like ours: the violinist case you are kidnapped by the society of music lovers and are hooked up to a dying violist, who needs you for 9months to survive. Thompson argues it is permissible to unhook yourself some ones" right to use ones body as one wishes outweighs someone else"s right to life. No because it does not affect your life. Dead people counterargument would you like to be known as a good parent even after death. Autonomy contributes to a good life, even when there is no pleasure involved. The power to guide our lives through our own free choices, even sometimes at the cost of happiness, is part of the greater pleasure of life. Sufficient** - if x fulfills an informed desire about your own life, then x is good: argument against * - not actually about your own life, ill informed about if this desire will improve our life.
