In lectures to stimulate interest, to convey information and to guide students' further study. In tutorials to provide a forum for discussion and debate and to clarify difficulties. In two formative essays to develop students' analytical skills and their ability to present their knowledge and understanding of problems in Applied Ethics in good plain English Applied Ethics has been a growth subject in recent years and has done much to free philosophy from its ivory tower image. At least three kinds of question are raised when we think about the rights and wrongs of reproductive decisions taken during pregnancy. Consider carefully how you think they are related.
Abortion is wrong per se .
They use a limited number of criteria which can be specified in advance, and which they claim always determine the moral status of the action in the same way. Particularism is not to be confused with subjectivism or relativism or scepticism. Criteria - 1. Defining the fetus in terms of personhood is the first hurdle. Jarvis Thomson s example shows that the person and rights criteria are not as decisive as those who invoke it would like.