Kant can't be wrong!
The only thing unconditionally good according to Kant
What is the good will?
Bentham's device to measure pleasure and pain by numerical units.
What is the hedonic calculus?
The supreme court case that legalized abortion in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The name of the first large cloned mammal.
Who is Dolly?
This type of euthanasia consists of taking a definite act to end a person's life.
What is active euthanasia?
The type of rule that depicts an action as good for a purpose.
What is a hypothetical imperative?
What the act utilitarian relies on to judge the moral value of an action.
What is utility?
The two conditions in which an abortion is clearly considered morally permissible according to Thomson.
What are when a woman's life is at risk and rape?
According to Kass, the feeling most people experience when they hear about cloning.
What is repugnance?
This type of euthanasia consists of ending the life of someone contrary to or against his or her wish.
What is involuntary euthanasia?
According to Kant, the purpose of reason is to make the human being this.
What is moral?
The type of utilitarianism that states that an act is right if and only if it is required by a rule that is itself a member of a set of rules whose acceptance would lead to greater utility for society than any available alternative.
What is rule utilitarianism?
The reason killing a human being like you or I is wrong according to Marquis.
What is it deprives you of a future of value?
The action that Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) in Gattaca performs at the end of the film.
What is suicide?
The single strongest argument for active euthanasia of those dying of a terminal disease according to James Rachels.
What is the Argument from Mercy?
What is the formula of humanity?
This objection to utilitarianism states that one should maximize the happiness of others as much as possible, such as giving all one’s assets (beyond what is necessary to keep me alive) to the poor to promote utility.
What is the No Rest Objection?
The correct definition of the right to life, according to Thomson.
What is the right not to be killed unjustly?
The number of genetic parents a human being who is cloned has.
What is one?
The moral theory James Rachels modifies in his defense of euthanasia.
What is utilitarianism?
What you do to a maxim in Kant's Formula of the Law of Nature.
What is universalize it?
According to Mill, this is the sole evidence that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable.
What is that people desire it?
The kind of person who follows their obligations and is justified to have an abortion in the case of rape.
What is a minimally decent Samaritan?
What is the liberal view of cloning?
According to Gay-Williams, this is the most likely reason that the idea of euthanasia is slowly gaining acceptance within our society.
What is an unthinking sympathy and benevolence for those suffering?