Ethics - Quotes Flashcards
Euthanasia - Singer
The shift from Sanctity to Quality of Life shows we want more control over our lives
Euthanasia - Kuhse
Slipperyslope argument is weak since there is no evidence in Netherlands. Fearmonger tactics.
Euthanasia - Ecclesiastes 30:17
“It is better to rest eternally than suffer chronic sickness.”
Euthanasia - Hippocratic Oath
“Above all else, do no harm.”
“I shall neither give deadly drug to those who ask for it.”
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Sexual Ethics - Kant
“Taken by itself erotic love is a degradation of human nature, but it can be expressed in repricosity with in the monogomous of married life, where it re-establishes the rational personality.”
“A man’s moral worth comes from when his action is independant of sympathy or empathy.”
Sexual Ethics / Euthanasia - Kai Neilson
“No one shared human nature.”
Sexual Ethics - Robert George
using your body for pleasure leads to “Disintegration of a person”
Sexual Ethics - Tim Keller
“Covenental vs consumerist mindset.”
“Our cultures makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values. Deep down, any love relationship means the loss of all three.”
“Love beyond the frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up.”
Sexual Ethics - Pope Pius XI
“The conjugal act is designed primarily by nature for the begetting of children.”
Sexual Ethics - Aquinas
“Marriage is generative, and unitive.”
Sexual Ethics - Augustine
“Ran wild in the shadowy jungle of erotic adventures.”
“Could not tell the difference between love and lust.”
- True sex is an expression of the whole person (body, heart, soul)
Sexual ethics / Meta ethics / Euthanasia - Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Euthanasia - Aristotle
“A man’s moral worth comes from his ability to clue to reason.”
Euthanasia - Glover
“They are biological beings lacking the distinguishing physchological qualities of typical human beings”
Euthanasia / Situation Ethics - Fletcher
“Loves decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively.”
Karl Barth
“Human reason is corrupt.”
Situation Ethics / Euthanasia - Pope Benedict
“Relativism is the greatest problem of our time.”
Aquinas - Conscience (3)
“Conscience and morality are god-given and naturally occuring.”
“Conscience is reason making right decisions, not a voice giving us commands.”
“Prudence entails not only consideration of the reason, but also the application to action, which is the goal of practical reason.”
C.S Lewis - Conscience
“Conscience reveals to us a moral law whose source cannot be found in the natural world, thus pointing to a supernatural law-giver.”
Vonn Cardinal Newman
“Conscience is god-given, if we follow conscience - we follow God’s laws.”
Boyle - Conscience / Euthanasia
“The bible and science are complementary, and enhance each other.”
Catholic Church - Euthanasia
“One need not strife officiously to keep one alive.”
Netherlands - Euthanasia (STATISTIC)
Peter singer found that in 48,000 Euthanisations, only 2 were potentially killed without consent.
