Scholars

Question 1

Bentham Utilitarianism

Answer 1

> 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

Question 2

Mill Utilitarianism

Answer 2

> 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

Question 3

Trotsky Utilitarianism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Kant Utilitarianism

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Singer Utilitarianism

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Mary Warnock Euthanasia

Answer 6

those with loss of dignity should be respected

Question 7

Bible Euthanasia

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Camus Euthanasia

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Professor Hans King Euthanasia

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Annie Lindsell Euthanasia

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Fletcher Euthanasia

Answer 11

people in a vegitative state are not people

Question 12

Mother Teresa Abortion

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Tony Blair Abortion

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Margret Sanger Abortion

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Judith Jarvis Thomson Abortion

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Second vatican Abortion

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Church of England Abortion

Answer 17

> 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

Question 18

J Glover Abortion

Answer 18

invisable womb

Question 19

lesser of two evils Abortion

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Dawkins Situation ethics

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Hoose Situation ethics

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Romans 13:8 Situation ethics

Answer 22

owe no one anything, except love

Question 23

Bultmann Situation ethics

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Bishop Robinson Situation ethics

Answer 24

Assertations about love are in the last analysis assertations about God

Question 25

Tillich Situation ethics

Answer 25

love is an ontological part of the human condition

Question 26

Fletcher Situation ethics

Answer 26

> 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’

Question 27

Fletcher on Legalism

Answer 27

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