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Created by Nick Purches-Knab
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Question | Answer |
Postmodern View of Religion | Spiritual supermarket Pick and mix religion Living faith Spiritual search No right or wrong religion Religion as cultural construct |
Rise of Atheism | Problem of evil Science Empiricism Loss of moral absolutes Awareness of other faiths |
Six fundamental principles | Love is the only norm Only love is always good Love is justice Love justifies the means Love is not liking Love decides there and then |
Four Working Principles | Positivism Pragmatism Personalism Relativism |
Felicific Calculus | Purity Remoteness Intensity Certainty Extent Duration Fecundity |
General Principles of Utilitarianism | Consequentialism Hedonism |
General Principles of Situation Ethics | Relativism Agape Conscience Middle way |
‘Happiness cannot be measured.’ | CANNOT subjective we may not all feel it the same way happiness monster? CAN Hedonic Calc How many? They can tell us! |
‘The highest Christian law is love.’ | YES Mark 3:1-6- Jesus heals on Sabbath Mark 2:23 The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath Mark 12:31 Love God and your neighbour as yourself – the greatest commandment. NO Best way to love is to obey God's law- natural law The greatest command- not the ONLY command! |
equality and difference- race | Race Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. BUT Curse of Ham Dutch Reform Church apartheid |
Equality and Difference- gender | Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Genesis 5:2 Male and female He created them BUT Different roles- The husband is the chief of the family and the head of the wife. Pope Leo XIII |
Equality and Difference- Disability | “Historically the Church has primarily seen disabled people as people who you do things for, in the sense of the old charity image. I think through disabled people and the disability movement, disabled people are saying, ‘I don’t want to be pew-fodder any more. I have a part to play within the Church.’” Rev John Naude |
Abortion- definitions | Definitions for the start of human life: potentiality, conception, primitive streak, viability, birth |
The value of potential life | foetus has right to life because it = 'potential human being' (Catholics give rights from conception) BUT Potential ≠ actual (children vote) BUT Irrational for rights to begin at birth- just geography! |
Abortion-Mother versus child | Catholic position- it is wrong to kill an innocent even to save an innocent- Savita Halappanavar BUT DDE OR woman should have absolute rights of autonomy- Judith Jarvis Thomson |
Legislation about Abortion | 1861 Offences Against the Person Act 1929 Infant Preservation Act 1967 Abortion Act 1990 Embryology Act (24) Issues: conscience/sinful but legal/ abnormality/father/ right to life/consequences |
Euthanasia- definitions | active passive voluntary involuntary- against will non voluntary |
Ethical issues involved in legislation about euthanasia | When does life finish? Human rights Value of life? Safeguard vulnerable? Social implications? Conscience Against God's will? |
Hospices and Palliative Care | Holistic Dignity Choice Value of life Symptom alleviation Community |
Arguments Abortion | + Women's autonomy + Gender equality + Consequences of ban - Childcare/ employment protection - Damages women - A plot of patriarchy -God -Right to life trumps autonomy |
Euthanasia arguments | + Right to choose + Best interests + Medical resources +Is death a bad thing? - Against the will of God - A slippery slope - Devalues life - Against best interests - Improvement of palliative care - Doctors and power -Pressure and abuse |
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