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10 Cards in this Set
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Moral Absolutism |
There is at least one principle that ought never to be violated |
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Categorical Imperatives: 1. Universal Law |
act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should be a universal law |
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2. The Principle of Humanity |
always treat persons as an end and never as a means only |
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Doctrine of Doing and Allowing (DDA) |
It is always morally worse to do harm than to allow that same harm to occur |
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Active euthanasia |
do something to end the person's life |
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Passive euthanasia |
Allow the person to die |
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Opponents of Active Euthanasia |
always worse than passive always wrong passive can be morally permissible |
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Rachels |
If Smith and Jones did something equally wrong, then the DDA is false |
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Utilitarianism on Active Euthanasia |
1. an action is right if it promoted happiness and wrong if it promotes pain and suffering 2. Active euthanasia, at the patient's own request, often would decrease the amount of pain and suffering 3. Therefore, active is often the morally right thing to do |
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Rachels on Euthanasia |
the DDA does not justify a ban on active euthanasia in some cases, active is morally better than alternatives |
