CRM/LAW C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Immanuel Kant, Assisted Suicide

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C10
• Professor: William Thompson

Document Summary

Notion of universal human rights: all humans are worthy of respect. It is wrong to treat them as mere instruments of the collective happiness. Rejects utilitarianism can"t treat people as a means to an end: morality is not about maximizing happiness or any other end. It is about respecting persons as ends in themselves. You can"t lie, but you can mislead. Morality flows from the intentions from which the act is done, what matters is the motive. You must do things for the right reasons. What are the right reasons: not self-gratification, not utility maximization, you must do it because it is right. Lying to a murderer: not about what you want or achieving desirable goals; it"s about if this act is the right thing to do (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Casual sex: using someone else to achieve your own ends, your own self- gratification, having sex is not good in itself, even if it"s very pleasing.