Ethics - Quotes

Question 1

Euthanasia - Singer

Answer 1

The shift from Sanctity to Quality of Life shows we want more control over our lives

Question 2

Euthanasia - Kuhse

Answer 2

Slipperyslope argument is weak since there is no evidence in Netherlands. Fearmonger tactics.

Question 3

Euthanasia - Ecclesiastes 30:17

Answer 3

“It is better to rest eternally than suffer chronic sickness.”

Question 4

Euthanasia - Hippocratic Oath

Answer 4

“Above all else, do no harm.”

“I shall neither give deadly drug to those who ask for it.”

Question 5

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Answer 5

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Question 6

Sexual Ethics - Kant

Answer 6

“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.”

Question 7

Sexual Ethics / Euthanasia - Kai Neilson

Answer 7

“No one shared human nature.”

Question 8

Sexual Ethics - Robert George

Answer 8

using your body for pleasure leads to “Disintegration of a person”

Question 9

Sexual Ethics - Tim Keller

Answer 9

“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.”

Question 10

Sexual Ethics - Pope Pius XI

Answer 10

“The conjugal act is designed primarily by nature for the begetting of children.”

Question 11

Sexual Ethics - Aquinas

Answer 11

“Marriage is generative, and unitive.”

Question 12

Sexual Ethics - Augustine

Answer 12

“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)

Question 13

Sexual ethics / Meta ethics / Euthanasia - Socrates

Answer 13

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Question 14

Euthanasia - Aristotle

Answer 14

“A man’s moral worth comes from his ability to clue to reason.”

Question 15

Euthanasia - Glover

Answer 15

“They are biological beings lacking the distinguishing physchological qualities of typical human beings”

Question 16

Euthanasia / Situation Ethics - Fletcher

Answer 16

“Loves decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively.”

Question 17

Karl Barth

Answer 17

“Human reason is corrupt.”

Question 18

Situation Ethics / Euthanasia - Pope Benedict

Answer 18

“Relativism is the greatest problem of our time.”

Question 19

Aquinas - Conscience (3)

Answer 19

“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.”

Question 20

C.S Lewis - Conscience

Answer 20

“Conscience reveals to us a moral law whose source cannot be found in the natural world, thus pointing to a supernatural law-giver.”

Question 21

Vonn Cardinal Newman

Answer 21

“Conscience is god-given, if we follow conscience - we follow God’s laws.”

Question 22

Boyle - Conscience / Euthanasia

Answer 22

“The bible and science are complementary, and enhance each other.”

Question 23

Catholic Church - Euthanasia

Answer 23

“One need not strife officiously to keep one alive.”

Question 24

Netherlands - Euthanasia (STATISTIC)

Answer 24

Peter singer found that in 48,000 Euthanisations, only 2 were potentially killed without consent.

Question 25

Jeremy Bentham - Euthanasia

Answer 25

“Reason is slave to the passions.”

Question 26

Euthanasia - Kierkegaard

Answer 26

“love is non-preferential.”

Question 27

Catholic Church Encyclical - Dignity of Dying

Answer 27

“Human pain demands love and supportive sharing, not the hasty violence of a premature death.”

Question 28

Euthanasia - Kevin SMith

Answer 28

“Euthanasia must be a personal decision between the terminally ill and their families, without idle threats of supernatural damnation.”

Question 29

Karl Popper - Conscience

Answer 29

Through the application of the Falsification principle, Freud’s theory fails as it cannot be tested scientifically.

Question 30

Ockham’s Razor - Conscience

Answer 30

Simpler explanations of guilt can be reached using few guesses and hypotheses, and thus are more likely to be correct.

Question 31

Euthanasia - Jack Kevorkian/Dr Death (4)

Answer 31

“What difference does it make if somebody is terminal? We are all terminal.”
“Any time you interfere with a natural process, you are playing God.”
“Dying is not a crime.”
“When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it.”

Question 32

Sexual Ethics - John Harris

Answer 32

Problems with sex is ettiquete not action. More about age, respect + harming others than the act.