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Chapter 4 Does Morality Depend on Religion Does Morality Depend on Religion On the surface religion seems connected with morality and atheism seems to have no place for it Does Morality Depend on Religion. 7: . Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. The “good death”. Euthanasia means ‘the good death’ and “to euthanize” means to bring about a person’s death to relieve the person of a serious distress. Since, for most us, death is not something we welcome, the phrase “the good death” can seem almost self-contradictory.. Euthanasia: Gay-Williams, . Rachels. and . Steinbock. Euthanasia and Physician- Assisted Suicide. As the long public debate about the case of Terri . Schaivo. revealed, Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide are controversial moral issues.. Chapter 2. Subjectivism in Morality. Cultural Relativism = What is right and wrong vary . from culture to culture. ; there is no culture-independent, objective morality.. Ethical Subjectivism =What is right and wrong vary from . Starter – Missing Words Round. LO s . To explore some of the key criticisms of the divine command theory, including the . Euthyphro. dilemma. To evaluate divine command theory in light of such criticisms. Moral Objectivism. : There are some objective moral facts.. Moral Subjectivism. : There are no objective moral facts. Statements of the form “x is right/good/moral” mean “I approve of x” and statements of the form “x is wrong/bad/immoral” mean “I disapprove of x”. . The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions. Izzy. . Kalman. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychological-solution-bullying/201008/principle-number-one-the-road-hell-is-paved-good-intenti. Examples of Good Intentions with Bad Effects:. Euthanasia: Gay-Williams, . Rachels. and . Steinbock. Euthanasia and Physician- Assisted Suicide. As the long public debate about the case of Terri . Schaivo. revealed, Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide are controversial moral issues.. Naturalism [This essay originally appeared in The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 74-91.] Twentieth century philosophy began with the rejection against. the problem of moral disagreement. T. hus, according to Simple Subjectivism, there is no disagreement between [Foreman and . Falwell. ]; each should acknowledge the truth of what the other is saying. Surely, though, there is something wrong here, for . &. Stuart Rachels. Is there a duty to help starving people?. Each year millions of people die from health problems caused by malnutrition.. Over 5,200 children under the age of five die every day from dehydration brought on by diarrhea – 1.9 million per year (. &. Stuart Rachels. The Problem of Definition. There are many rival theories, each expounding a different conception of what it means to live morally, and any definition that goes beyond Socrates’ simple formulation (“how we ought to live”) is bound to offend at least one of them.. Starter – Missing Words Round. LO s . To explore some of the key criticisms of the divine command theory, including the . Euthyphro. dilemma. To evaluate divine command theory in light of such criticisms.