Flashcards
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Cards in this deck (21)
- 1Postmodern View of ReligionSpiritual supermarket
Pick and mix religion
Living faith
Spiritual search
No right or wrong religion
Religion as cultural construct - 2Rise of AtheismProblem of evil
Science
Empiricism
Loss of moral absolutes
Awareness of other faiths
- 3Six fundamental principlesLove is the only norm
Only love is always good
Love is justice
Love justifies the means
Love is not liking
Love decides there and then
- 4Four Working PrinciplesPositivism
Pragmatism
Personalism
Relativism
- 5Felicific CalculusPurity
Remoteness
Intensity
Certainty
Extent
Duration
Fecundity
- 6General Principles of UtilitarianismConsequentialism
Hedonism
- 7General Principles of Situation EthicsRelativism
Agape
Conscience
Middle way
- 8‘Happiness cannot be measured.’CANNOT
subjective
we may not all feel it the same way
happiness monster?
CAN
Hedonic Calc
How many?
They can tell us!
- 9‘The highest Christian law is love.’YES
Mark 3:1-6- Jesus heals on Sabbath
Mark 2:23 The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath
Mark 12:31 Love God and your neighbour as yourself – the greatest commandment.
NO
Best way to love is to obey God's law- natural law
The greatest command- not the ONLY command!
- 10equality and difference- raceRace
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
BUT Curse of Ham
Dutch Reform Church apartheid
- 11Equality and Difference- genderGalatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 5:2 Male and female He created them
BUT
Different roles- The husband is the chief of the family and the head of the wife. Pope Leo XIII
- 12Equality and Difference- Disability“Historically the Church has primarily seen disabled people as people who you do things for, in the sense of the old charity image. I think through disabled people and the disability movement, disabled people are saying, ‘I don’t want to be pew-fodder any more. I have a part to play within the Church.’” Rev John Naude
- 13Abortion- definitionsDefinitions for the start of human life:
potentiality,
conception,
primitive streak,
viability,
birth
- 14The value of potential lifefoetus has right to life because it = 'potential human being' (Catholics give rights from conception)
BUT
Potential ≠ actual (children vote)
BUT
Irrational for rights to begin at birth- just geography!
- 15Abortion-Mother versus childCatholic position- it is wrong to kill an innocent even to save an innocent- Savita Halappanavar
BUT DDE
OR woman should have absolute rights of autonomy- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- 16Legislation about Abortion1861 Offences Against the Person Act
1929 Infant Preservation Act
1967 Abortion Act
1990 Embryology Act (24)
Issues: conscience/sinful but legal/ abnormality/father/ right to life/consequences
- 17Euthanasia- definitionsactive
passive
voluntary
involuntary- against will
non voluntary
- 18Ethical issues involved in legislation about euthanasiaWhen does life finish?
Human rights
Value of life?
Safeguard vulnerable?
Social implications?
Conscience
Against God's will?
- 19Hospices and Palliative CareHolistic
Dignity
Choice
Value of life
Symptom alleviation
Community
- 20Arguments Abortion+ Women's autonomy
+ Gender equality
+ Consequences of ban
- Childcare/ employment protection
- Damages women
- A plot of patriarchy
-God
-Right to life trumps autonomy
- 21Euthanasia arguments+ Right to choose
+ Best interests
+ Medical resources
+Is death a bad thing?
- Against the will of God
- A slippery slope
- Devalues life
- Against best interests
- Improvement of palliative care
- Doctors and power
-Pressure and abuse