Introduction

Introduction

1. Social Ethics

   • Rousseau
   • Needs justice

2. Justice Ethics

   • John Rawls
   • Unaware of own rank

3. Combined Ethical Thinking

   • Deontological
     • Autonomy
   • Consequentialist
     • Likely outcomes
   • Virtue
     • Underlying motives
   • Social Contract
     • Duties to society
   • Justice
     • fairness to society

4. Ethical Matrix

   • Benicence
   • Non-maleficence
   • Autonomy
   • Justice

5. Consequentialist

   • Judge actions according to consequences
   • J.S. Mills
     • Benefit the greatest number of people
   • NHS
     • Restricted availability of new drugs
     • Obese people
     • Benefit to many huge,harm to minority tiny

6. Virtue Ethics

   • Judge according to intentions

7. Natural Law

   • Divine Plan
   • Roman Catholicism and Contraception
     • Purpose of sex
       • Voided if more than one purpose
       • Homosexual acts immoral

8. Natural Law

   • Biological existance
   • Amoral

9. Rights Theories

   • Human rights inborn
   • Same rights if vegetative
   • Autonomy

10. The Dead-ends

    • Rational Egoism
    • Moral Relativism
      • Morality depends on society
      • Lincoln and slavery

11. Immanuel Kant

    • Deontological
    • Overwhelming sense of duty
    • No exploitation
    • Don't treat people as a means to an end
    • Against including animals

12. David Sharp

    • Everest
    • Commercial interest

13. Dimensions of ethical choices

    • Social
      • More = Conformist
    • Personal
      • More = Individualist
    • Little of either
      • Rebel