RELS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Virtue Ethics, Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics
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QUESTION 1
One of the strengths of Virtue Ethics is that it provides us with explicit guidance in deciding how to act in particular circumstances.
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QUESTION 2
More than one answer may be correct. (Hint: More than one of these is correct!) The Doctrine (Principle) of Double Effect allows the moral permissibility of:
A. | A mother aborting a pregnancy that was the result of a rape. | |
B. | A doctor performing a life-saving surgery on a pregnant woman where the intent is to save the life of the mother but the death of the fetus is a foreseen consequence of the procedure. | |
C. | A woman wantonly getting pregnant so she can get an abortion to make a political statement. | |
D. | A doctor injecting a terminally ill patient with morphine where the intent is to relieve the patient's pain but a foreseen consequence is hastening the patient's death. |
QUESTION 3
Nonmaleficence requires that the physician not subject her patient to any risks at all.
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QUESTION 4
A patient is unable to exercise full autonomy if her physician only tells her about one of several treatment options for her condition.
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QUESTION 5
Mary Anne Warren endorses a distinction between what is genetically human and what is morally human.
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QUESTION 6
Don Marquis argues that the wrongness of killing adult human beings (as well as human fetuses) is primarily due to the fact that killing deprives the victim of a valuable future.
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QUESTION 7
Dax Cowart now believes his doctors were right to continue his life-saving treatment in spite of his requests for them to let him die.
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QUESTION 8
Assigning degrees of urgency to patients wounded in a disaster (triage) and distributing limited medical resources based on who needs them most is a practice best supported by which ethical theory?
A. | Kantian Ethics | |
B. | Utilitarianism | |
C. | Care Ethics | |
D. | Natural Law Theory |
QUESTION 9
Rule Utilitarianism holds that the principle of utility should be applied on a case-by-case basis, to particular acts in particular circumstances.
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