Euthanasia Flashcards
Key Ideas
Sanctity/ quality of life, voluntary/ non-voluntary
Natural Law
Synderesis, Telos from Aristotle’s 4 Causes, Precepts, Real/ Apparent good, Doctrine of Double
Situation Ethics
4 Presuppositions, 6 Working Principles
NL Strengths
LCF
Legalistic
Clarity+ consistency
Flexible- secondary
NL Weaknesses
GRCHH
Gilligan: “cut head from heart”
Religious theory
Clash (Primary Precepts)
Hobbes: “naturally scramble for everything they covet”
Human development- pollution, overpopulation, depletion
SE Strengths
FACS Flexible- Jesus broke laws Autonomy No empirical Conscience Situational
SE Weaknesses
HBUVI Human rights- no universal moral code Allows Bad acts Unpredictable Consequentialism Vague Inaccessible to theists
Arguments for Autonomy
KKG
Kung- “all-merciful God would give dying humans the responsibility”
Kevorkian- “what counts is what the patient wants”
Gift means we have freedom
For Sanctity
ASKD Aquinas- "rejection of God's gift" Samuel- "God kills and makes alive" Kant- duty not to end life Daniel Burden- life doesn't end when paralysed
For Quality
MAW- reasoning, communication, self-motivation
Fletcher- 40 iQ-> 20 iQ
Popper- negative utilitarianism
More- cannot live in misery with no hope
Arguments against Autonomy
HHB
Hays- “always culturally influenced”
Hooker- incorrect diagnosis
Barth- “corrupt and cannot be trusted”
Active
Pence- already dying= not wrong
