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Beneficience - -The duty to help others in need.
Non-maleficience - -The duty to not harm others. This includes
acts committed or omitted. One example would be if a doctor forgot to
give a patient the correct care.
That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties. - -
What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
Problem with prima facie duties - -They may not be self-evident to
those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't thought
about it enough.
,Double-effect principle - -From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to
describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
controversial, especially among utilitarians.
We should help others in danger - -If there is little risk and even if
it is not in our self-interest.
Joel Feinberg - -He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law,
which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of government
intervention in individual freedom.
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law - -1. The Harm Principle
(originally from John Stuart Mill)
2. The Offence Principle
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
Paternalism - -Having a person or the government do what they
think is best for you, even if it goes against your wishes. Feinberg
rejected this hard, where competent adults would have their liberty
restricted to prevent them from harming themselves.
, Offense Principle - -Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct
that seriously offends others.
Legal Moralism - -It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior,
even if nobody is harmed or offended. One example would be a
community banning homosexual acts.
Legal Pluralism - -Is the existence of multiple legal systems within
one (human) population and/or geographic area.
Moral pluralism - -Is the assumption there are moral truths, but
that they do not form a body of coherent and consistent truths as those
found in the sciences or mathematic approach.
Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense
morality. - -Why should parents take care of their kids?
The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of
obedience. - -What happens if the parent doesn't act in the best
interests of the child?
That are close to us - -We have a duty of special concern to
those...?