RELG 2650 - Midterm Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
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RELG 2650
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RELG 2650
RELG 2650 - Midterm Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
Principles of each tradition
- Tradition of debate and interpretation in Talmud provides model for how to apply Law to new situations
- Tradition of theological reflection helps people to interpret natural law and Scripture
Body a...
RELG 2650 - Midterm Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
Principles of each tradition
- Tradition of debate and interpretation in Talmud provides model for how to apply Law
to new situations
- Tradition of theological reflection helps people to interpret natural law and Scripture
Body and our lives are not our own
3 themes
- Body belongs to God
- Body is neutral
- Help God preserve and protect the world
Goodness of the world and the body
- Creation is good
- God allows people to act for the good, commitment to justice and care
- Bodies are good, so are called to care for them and accept them
Inspiration for medical care that drives each tradition
- A record of the sayings and traditions of Prophet Muhammad, source of religious law
and moral guidance second only to Quran in Islam
- Judaism has a long tradition of commitment to medicine with some of its greatest
scholars being doctors, like Moses Maimonides (1138-1204)
- As in other traditions, life is gift from God that we should care for that is destined for
Resurrection
Consequentialism and its problems
Consequences of actions
- The morality of action derives in large part from its consequences
- Common form is utilitarianism - greatest good for greatest number
, - Many forms look at pleasure and pain as most morally important aspects of life
- Takes itself to be an objective ethic - uses calculative reason
Deontology and its problems
Inviolable Rules and Rights
- Lack of regard for consequences
- Conflicts between duties or rights
- Seems cold to many -focus is on duty and norms, without a rich emotional content -
Kant's philanthropic
Need for bioethics - Nuremberg
- Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi
Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and atrocities against
their citizens in World War II
- blamed wrong doing on authority
Need for bioethics - Tuskegee
- 1932-1972, 400 Black men who were infected with syphilis were observed
Not told they had syphilis ('bad blood') & not offered treatment originally nor when
penicillin comes into widespread use after World War II
Substantive Rules
actual, concrete guidance on what should be done
Authority Rules
who can make a decision - patient, doctor, next of kin
Procedural Rules
how do people go about making a decision - role of IRBs, role of ethics committees,
paperwork to ensure informed consent
Non-maleficience principle
do no harm
Autonomy Principle
autonomous persons should be allowed to exercise their capacity for self-determination
(individual choice)
Beneficence Principle
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