PHI-2635 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
21 Sep 2016
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Progressive and ultimately fatal degenerative disease of the nervouse system. Lose the ability to walk, work, dress himself, and sit up without supports. Intended for otherwise healthy victims of drowning or electrocution, has gradually and unceremoniously become and final passage. The heart was seen w/ the soul or personality. Gilbert harman moral nihilism the doctrine that there are no moral facts, no moral truths, and no moral knowledge. The theory of moral language that is offered by moderate moral nihilists is known as emotivism . Abortion is wrong does not say anything about abortion, but expresses someone"s negative feelings about abortion. Reductionists- offer one idea as the key to morality, and attempt to reduce everything to that one idea. Philosophers (some) believe normative theory can be the correct theory. Jeremy bentham/john stuart mill credited with developing the first detailed and systematic formulation of this theory.
