(F) L1.2: Intro to Bioethics and Professional Ethics (Part 2) Flashcards
Importance of Bioethics:
Ethics is an ________ knowledge
Indispensable
Importance of Bioethics:
Without this, man is only an animal
Moral Perception
Importance of Bioethics:
Without this, man as a rational being is a failure
Morality
Importance of Bioethics:
Because _____ is too essential to be dismissed, the creator has seen it fit to fight man with the natural insight of it
Moral Knowledge
Importance of Bioethics:
A ______ who finds inconvenient reasons to turn his back from ethics will discover that he is the center of it
Modern Man
Importance of Bioethics:
This is the only true measure of what man is ought to be
Moral Integrity
Importance of Bioethics:
Philosophers speak of ethics as the only what?
Necessary knowledge
Importance of Bioethics:
Who stated this quote: “Forgetting that man’s greatness, perfection, and happiness, his whole meaning, consists in transcending the commonly accepted human good”
Jacques Leclercq
Importance of Bioethics:
This is the foundation of every human society
Morality
Importance of Bioethics:
Who stated this: “Without civic morality, communities perish, without personal morality, their survival has no value”
Russell
Importance of Bioethics:
According to Russell, without this, communities will perish
Civic Morality
Importance of Bioethics:
According to Russell, without this, a human’s survival has no value
Personal Morality
Importance of Bioethics:
T or F: Every culture admits the importance of morality as a standard of behavior, so when moral foundations are threatened, the society is preserved from the threats
False (society is also threatened)
Importance of Bioethics:
This should be the priority on who is to get what and how much, in terms of financial and human forces
Finitude of Resources
Finitude: State of having limits
Importance of Bioethics:
Tales of abuse of rights and autonomy arouse what emotions?
Shame and indignation
Importance of Bioethics:
Healthcare is NOT morally ______
Neutral
Importance of Bioethics:
Every healthcare provider is a _______ who must judge the goodness or evil of his goals and actions
Moral Agent
Importance of Bioethics:
Healthcare providers cannot depend on __________ as it can only judge the effectiveness of the means to achieve the goal
Scientific Knowledge
Importance of Bioethics:
Goodness must be determined by what 3 considerations of man?
- Needs
- Values
- Ultimate Ends
Importance of Bioethics:
T or F: Science is safe in the hands of those who don’t match their scientific knowledge with their ethical knowledge and sensitivity
False (not safe)
Needs of the Person:
Healthcare professionals make technical decisions, but because medicine involves human needs and values, it also becomes what type of decision?
Ethical Decision
Needs of the Person:
Nothing is more human and personal than _____ because when you’re concerned about this, it goes beyond physical well-being (emotional and psychological as well)
Health
Needs of the Person:
Every human person has an inner ______ and inherent ______ because he is a human person
Inner worth and Inherent dignity
Needs of the Person:
The human being is not a static entity, but rather a ______ system of needs
Dynamic
Needs of the Person:
Decisions about health must aim at the _______ integrated satisfaction of a human’s needs
Maximum
Needs of the Person:
Certain actions may never be done because performing them would constitute a violation against a person’s ______, both to whom the action is directed and the one performing it
Dignity
The Human Act:
This entity is creative because he possesses tremendous bodily and spiritual powers
Si batman char, “man” ang sagot
The Human Act:
A man acts to ______ himself in the world around him for every minute of his life
Transform
The Human Act:
______ constitute a person; someone who is in control of himself and is accountable
Actions
The Human Act:
What a person is and what becomes of him is largely dependent on the type of ______ he performs
Actions
Refers to actions where man knows what he is doing and freely chooses to do what he does
Human Acts
Refers to actions that are instinctive and are not within the control of the will; these are biological and physiological movements such as metabolism, respiration, fear, anger, love, and jealousy
Acts of Man
Characteristics of an Act to be Considered as a Human Act:
- What it is about and what it means
- Performed by a conscious agent who is aware of his actions and its consequences
- Children below the age of reason are incapable of acting knowingly
Knowledge
Characteristics of an Act to be Considered as a Human Act:
These types of people are referred to being incapable of acting knowingly
(3 answers)
- Children
- Insane
- Senile
Characteristics of an Act to be Considered as a Human Act:
- To do or leave it undone without coercion or constraint
- It implies voluntariness which rationally chooses the object by deliberate will
- Performed by an agent who is acting freely by his own volition and powers
Freedom
Characteristics of an Act to be Considered as a Human Act:
T or F: Voluntariness implies freedom
False (does not)
Characteristics of an Act to be Considered as a Human Act:
- Performed by an agent who intentionally decides to perform the act
- Resolve to perform an act here and now or in some future time
Willfulness
Conscience:
This is the proximate norm of morality
Conscience
Conscience:
Conscience is the _______ norm of morality because it confronts an action good or bad
Proximate