RELG 2650 2023 Mid-Term Questions With
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Important texts
- Torah--> first 5 books of bible
- Quran--> Holy text in Islam
- Sunna--> The saying and deeds of the prophets and its companions
Creation
- Everything depends on god for existence
- Main Assumptions--> God is creator, god is transcendent from world yet involved, basis of human dignity
Problems with idea of creation
- Good yet broken
- Implications about the body and that our bodies belong to god
fundamental Jewish themes/beliefs regarding health care
- Body belongs to god
- Body is neutral
- Help god preserve and protect the world
Consequentialism - Ethical system that determines the level of goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
- Greatest good for greatest number
Deontology
- Approach to ethics that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules.
- Described as duty or obligation, because rules 'binds you to your duty'
- Does not really think about consequences
Tuskegee Syphillis experiments
- 1932-1972
- 400 black men told they had "bad blood" after being injected with syphilis to be observed
- Vulnerable group
- Objectified research subjects
- Hid information
- Led to principlism
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