Scholars Flashcards

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Bentham Utilitarianism

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> Nature has placed man under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain, they decide what we do

> the greatest happiness for the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation

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Mill Utilitarianism

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> It is better to be a human disatisfied than a pig sattisfied, to be Socrates disatisifed than a fool satisfied

> people tend to pursue bodily pleasures, pursue sensual indulgences to the injury of health

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Trotsky Utilitarianism

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end

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Kant Utilitarianism

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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will premote happiness of a rational being

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Singer Utilitarianism

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Do what is best that will have the best consequence for all

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Mary Warnock Euthanasia

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those with loss of dignity should be respected

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Bible Euthanasia

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death is better than a miserable life and eternal rest than chronic sickness

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Camus Euthanasia

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pain relief at childbirth but none at death, both decisions are to do with life and death and the individuals choice

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Professor Hans King Euthanasia

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contraception is widley accepted in the Catholic Laity, so too should VE

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Annie Lindsell Euthanasia

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saying people are forced into VE is like saying making love is rape

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Fletcher Euthanasia

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people in a vegitative state are not people

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Mother Teresa Abortion

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the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her child, what is left, for me to kill you and you too kill me

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Tony Blair Abortion

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as much as i dislike the idea of abortion, you should not crimalise a woman, who in a difficult circumstance, makes that choice

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Margret Sanger Abortion

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no woman can call herself free who does not have control over her body

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Judith Jarvis Thomson Abortion

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> violinist
Burglar
women have less right if no contraception is used

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Second vatican Abortion

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life must be protected for the moment of conception, abortion and infanticide are of the most abdominable crimes

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Church of England Abortion

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> although, the feotus is to be specially respected and protected, nonetheless the life of the feotus is not absolutely sacrosanct if it endangers the life of the mother

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J Glover Abortion

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invisable womb

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lesser of two evils Abortion

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christians need to face frankly that in an imperfect world the right choice is sometimes the acceptance of the lesser of two evils

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Dawkins Situation ethics

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perfect in a world of saints, but useless in a world of sinners, those who follow Situation ethics will loose

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Hoose Situation ethics

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it is never right to go against principle unless there is a proportionate reason to do so

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Romans 13:8 Situation ethics

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owe no one anything, except love

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Bultmann Situation ethics

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no ethic other than love thy neighbour in Bible, Jesus didn’t teach a system, only love thy neighbour

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Bishop Robinson Situation ethics

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Assertations about love are in the last analysis assertations about God

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Tillich Situation ethics

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love is an ontological part of the human condition

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Fletcher Situation ethics

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> morality depends on situation

> there is no conscience, it is merely a word for our attempts to make a decision creativlry, fittingly and constructively

> there are no rules, absolutely none

> not ‘good or ‘right’, but ‘fittingly’

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Fletcher on Legalism

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with this approach one enters into everyday decision making with a whole apparatus of fabricated rules and regulations

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Arguments against euthanasia

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> Thou shalt not kill
God made man in his own image Gensis
God gave and God take away -Job