Alien Dignity - ANSWER-humans' worth is not intrinsic to themselves but given from the outside
(established by God)...human worth transcends us and our possibility of rejecting it
→ believed in Islamic, Jewish and Protestant religions
QUESTION: Autonomy - ANSWER-self rule that is free from both controlling influence by others and
limitations that prevent meaningful choice (ie. inadequate understanding)
→ autonomous=acts freely with a self-chosen plan; non autonomous=controlled
→ Intentionality, understanding, voluntariness
QUESTION: The Bible - ANSWER-key to identifying and interpreting Protestant ethics
→ "Sola Scriptura": by scripture alone
QUESTION: Balancing - ANSWER-process of finding reasons to support beliefs about which moral norms
should prevail (concerned with relative weights/strengths) --> deliberation and judgment
We must look at a particular cases to decide how the circumstances should be weighted (cannot look
abstractly)
QUESTION: Beneficence - ANSWER-doing good; connotes acts of mercy, kindness, friendship, charity,
and the like; it includes all forms of action intended to benefit other persons
QUESTION: Bioethics - ANSWER-Application of principles, rules and values to science, medicine and
health care, whether directly or through public policy
, --> interdisciplinary and interprofessional
--> integrally related to social ethics
QUESTION: Casuistry - ANSWER-Case-based reasoning. Looking at particularities of a problem by looking
at specific cases.
This is why B&C principles prima facie b/c when look @ specific cases, principles clash
QUESTION: Communal-Relational Critique - ANSWER-Principles misunderstood social nature of human
identity and focus too much on individualistic nature (autonomy)
→ Zoloth (Narrative bioethics): we are not responding to social issues in medicine (ie. universal health
care access); prioritize relationships/community over autonomy for basis of bioethics (responsibility to
others rather than rights)
→ Keenan (Virtue Bioethics): concerns about autonomy; virtues serve as guides for social relationships
QUESTION: Conscientization - ANSWER-involves discovering that evil is present within the structures of
society, leading to knowledge that those structures need to change; literally: consciousness-raising
(Farmer)
QUESTION: Consent - ANSWER-Explicit consent: Verbal informed consent
Implicit consent: Inferred from actions
Tacit consent: offered silently or passively through omission *Not relevant to intimacy lol theological
bioethics*
Presumed consent: form of implied consent based on an individual's previous and known habits
(established by God)...human worth transcends us and our possibility of rejecting it
→ believed in Islamic, Jewish and Protestant religions
QUESTION: Autonomy - ANSWER-self rule that is free from both controlling influence by others and
limitations that prevent meaningful choice (ie. inadequate understanding)
→ autonomous=acts freely with a self-chosen plan; non autonomous=controlled
→ Intentionality, understanding, voluntariness
QUESTION: The Bible - ANSWER-key to identifying and interpreting Protestant ethics
→ "Sola Scriptura": by scripture alone
QUESTION: Balancing - ANSWER-process of finding reasons to support beliefs about which moral norms
should prevail (concerned with relative weights/strengths) --> deliberation and judgment
We must look at a particular cases to decide how the circumstances should be weighted (cannot look
abstractly)
QUESTION: Beneficence - ANSWER-doing good; connotes acts of mercy, kindness, friendship, charity,
and the like; it includes all forms of action intended to benefit other persons
QUESTION: Bioethics - ANSWER-Application of principles, rules and values to science, medicine and
health care, whether directly or through public policy
, --> interdisciplinary and interprofessional
--> integrally related to social ethics
QUESTION: Casuistry - ANSWER-Case-based reasoning. Looking at particularities of a problem by looking
at specific cases.
This is why B&C principles prima facie b/c when look @ specific cases, principles clash
QUESTION: Communal-Relational Critique - ANSWER-Principles misunderstood social nature of human
identity and focus too much on individualistic nature (autonomy)
→ Zoloth (Narrative bioethics): we are not responding to social issues in medicine (ie. universal health
care access); prioritize relationships/community over autonomy for basis of bioethics (responsibility to
others rather than rights)
→ Keenan (Virtue Bioethics): concerns about autonomy; virtues serve as guides for social relationships
QUESTION: Conscientization - ANSWER-involves discovering that evil is present within the structures of
society, leading to knowledge that those structures need to change; literally: consciousness-raising
(Farmer)
QUESTION: Consent - ANSWER-Explicit consent: Verbal informed consent
Implicit consent: Inferred from actions
Tacit consent: offered silently or passively through omission *Not relevant to intimacy lol theological
bioethics*
Presumed consent: form of implied consent based on an individual's previous and known habits
