Question

Answer the following questions based from our module and discussions with a minimum of 8 sentences and a maximum of 15 sentences each.

1. What is philosophy? What does a person do when he/she is philosophizing? Give an instance wherein you were philosophizing.

2. What is Ethics? What is the focus of ethics? Do you think ethics is important in people’s lives? Why or why not?

3. Contraception or also known as birth control prevents pregnancy by interfering with the normal process of ovulation, fertilization, and implantation. In this case, what ethical theory or framework we discussed can contraception become an issue? In that certain ethical framework or theory, why is contraception an issue?

4. For instance, a surgeon has five patients are all waiting for transplants. One needs a heart, another a lung. Two are waiting for kidneys and the last needs a liver. The doctor is pretty sure that these patients will all die before their names come up on the transplant list. And he just so happens to have a neighbor who has no family. The doctor knows that no one would miss this guy if he were to disappear. And by some miracle, the neighbor is a match for all five of the transplant patients. Yes, one innocent person dies, but five innocent people are saved. In the scenario, what ethical theory or framework can be applied to? Why?


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Answer 1

Answer:

• the study of ideas and beliefs about the meaning of life
• Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. The term was probably coined by Pythagoras
• The field of ethics (or moral philosophy) involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
• Most birth control pills are "combination pills" containing a mix of the hormones estrogen and progesterone to prevent ovulation (the release of an egg during the monthly cycle). A woman cannot get pregnant if she doesn't ovulate because there is no egg to be fertilized.