CORE1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cosmological Principle, Thought Experiment
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Ethics at the beginning and end of life. The philosophy of the human person plays a pivotal role in moral enquiry because deliberation over what constitutes a person determines how we treat those persons. A primary epistemological problems for debates over human persons is to make sure we are talking about the same things. The term equivocation is used in philosophy to help us avoid this fallacy. Clearly when we are talking about human beings it is indisputable that embryos, foetuses, and newborns are all human but there is much dispute over whether all forms of humans are persons. To be a human person requires characteristics (1-5) X has characteristic (1-5: x must be a human person. The cosmological principle in astrophysics contends that the distribution of matter in the universe is uniform on a large scale. This means that our solar system and our planet are not unique.
