W13 BIOETHICS Flashcards
refers to the identification, study and resolution or mitigation of conflicts among competing values or goals. It is both practical and normative science based on reasons, which studies human acts and provides norms and goodness.
Ethics
Ethics deals with the systemized body knowledge that can be use, practice and applied to the human action. It considers usefulness, practicality and application of human knowledge towards experience
PRACTICAL SCIENCE
Ethics establishes norms or standards for the direction and regulation of human actions, because it determines the principles of right and wrong in human behavior.
NORMATIVE SCIENCE
It refers to the ethical implication and applications of the healthcare related life sciences.
BIOETHICS
- Big numbers catch your audience’s attention
EGOISM
Ayn Rand, Adam Smith
Famous proponents of EGOISM
What makes something good or bad, right or wrong, is that it satisfies one’s desires, or meets one’s needs.
EGOISM
- Self-interest of person doing, considering or affected by the action.
- One should chose the action which most realizes to one’s own self-interest.
- It is about what makes something good or bad or right or wrong that satisfies one’s desire.
EGOISM
asserts that a person will always act in their own self-interest even it appears that they do aren’t.
Psychological egoism
What makes something good or bad, right or wrong, is that is produces the greatest amount of pleasure (or lack of pain) for the greatest number of people.
UTILITARIANISM
- Maximizing positive outcomes for the largest number of people, negative outcomes for lowest number of people.
- One should chose the action which will lead to greatest happiness such as pleasure, lack of pain or overall.
- One’s own pleasure and pain only account as much as any other person’s affected.
Famous Proponents of UTILITARIANISM
hedonistic happiness is the highest good in utilitarianism.
- Pleasure
friendship or knowledge preference.
- Pluralistic good
- Holds that the most important aspect of our lives are governed by certain unbreakable moral rules.
DEONTOLOGY
- One example of an unbreakable rule is the Ten Commandments.
- They may do the right thing even though the consequences of that action may not be good
DEONTOLOGY
Immanuel Kant and William David Ross
Famous Proponentsof Deontology
fulfilling duties towards self or other person is equivalent to the ethics of duties or obligation.
basic principle of deontology
, a German philosopher known for single principle, or categorical imperative. He also proposes universality what maxims past distress and persons end what count a person
Immanuel Kant
Do no harm
Non-maleficence
Doing acts of goodness
Beneficence
Treat ‘equals’ equally
Justice