Theory Identification
Arguments supposing this ethical theory will appeal to the pursuit of basic goods to which we are naturally inclined.
What is the Natural Law?
Giving a terminally ill patient a lethal injection would be an example of this kind of euthanasia.
What is active euthanasia?
This classmate collects bobble heads
Who is Seth?
This contemporary Utilitarian argues animals' interests should be taken into consideration in our Utility calculus.
Who is Peter Singer?
Criterion Tom Regan holds for moral standing.
Who is being the subject of a life.
Deontological arguments might employ the strategy of categorical imperatives, such as the humanity formula or this
What is The Universal Law formula?
Country we read about that allows patients with mental illness to get euthanized.
What is Belgium?
This classmate from the Home team is a silver medal juggler
Who is Shawn?
Label Peter Singer gives for unprincipled discrimination on the basis of species.
What is Speciesism?
A deontologist could argue that it's unfair to use chickens to lay eggs for us because we cannot obtain this from them.
What is consent?
Ethical theory that will use moral exemplars to illustrate what a person should choose to do
What is Virtue Theory?
The two values that Brock argues underwrite both a patient's right to chose to prolong treatment and a patient's right to end their own life.
What are self-determination and well-being?
This classmate is a ninja warrior
Who is Josh?
Ideas from Aquinas Tardiff uses to argue for Vegetarianism are proportionality and this:
What is hierarchy in nature?
Regan says that if we base rights off of cognitive criteria, these individuals would't have rights.
Who are infants and persons with cognitive disabilities.
These two ethical theories will state their value goals in terms of eudaimonia/flourishing.
What are Virtue Theory and Natural Law?
Rachels argues that there is essentially no difference between these.
What are active and passive euthanasia?
This classmate's guinea pig is named Spot
Who is Ryan?
Carl Cohen argues that since animals have no moral capacities, they have none of these
What are rights?
Where a Utilitarian says we should make cages more comfortable, an animal rights activists would say we should do this to cages.
What is abolish them?
These ethical theories will make appeals to the common good
What are Utilitarianism and Natural Law theory?
Steinbock argues that cessation of ordinary means of life support is really this.
What is neglect?
This classmate met Greg.
Who is Lillian?
A being that is directly morally considerable.
What is a moral patient.
Another name for animal experimentation (especially involving dissection or surgery).
What is vivisection?