I have been contemplating the idea of the case of terri shivoh and how it relates to ethics. Since I am passionite about people with disabilities and discrimination against them I think that I could get a good paper from the subject. I just don't know where to begin looking for information. I know what to ask but I don't know how to set my case can you help?
I also kind of like this question because it is something that is intresting to me too.
Should our conscience determine what actions are morally right and morally wrong?
you cant get a way from the conscience it is always there no matter what. You could over ride it...
Should we act morally solely because of divine will?
Thats what I have been pondering since late this afternoon 2 ish.
2 comments:
First of all, you have have better success in your search for Terri Schiavo if you --- well, actually, I'm not really sure you NEED that information.
You might want to ask whether Schiavo was "disabled", "diseased", or "injured". Is being comatose a "disability"? I'm not sure: there may be various types of definitions of the terms "disability" and "disabled".
I would not suggest focusing so narrowly as an examination of the Schiavo case alone. I would look at disabilities in general and the way discrimination against disabled people is or is not like other forms of discrimination.
If you know what to ask that is enough, since what you are doing is creating a questionnaire.
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What is the conscience if it is not the facility to determine right and wrong and the urging toward right? So I'm not sure how, if the conscience may be said to exist, the answer to this question would be anything but "Yes".
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Your last question is a good one -- it is different than what you asked in class, for there you imposed the word "our" before "divine".
If we act morally solely because of divine will, we have no will of our own. In this case we are either beings without will (which some argue -- usually on the basis of either predestinationalism [some force outside of ourselves (for example, God) has predestined everything that we do] or mechanism [everything happens as a result of mechanical relationships of cause and effect]) -- or we have will but have surrendered it to the point that, in effect, we no longer have individual wills but work only the divine will.
Could the divine will be known with certainty, and were it further certain that all that the divine wills is good, and were it possible for a human to completely surrender her or his will (if it exists) to God, then it would surely bring the most perfect good for humans were all humans to surrender their wills to God.
But before we can answer this question of whether we should do this, we might want to ask whether we CAN, and what it would mean if we could.
cant remeber is where we need citations if any?
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