Bioethics

-Study of life
- Discipline that applies principle in life science
- Professional ethics- Applicable to life scientist
- Natural truth of particular science

Bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences.
Professional Ethics
- Without a natural moral line the best profession is always bad
- It springs forth as a natural concept
- Normative- It gives us guides on what to do

Norms- Discovered by studying nature of things.

Morality- Sense of right and wrong

Christian Bioethics
3 Virtues
Faith, Love, Hope

Goal of bioethics

- Worth and value of a person is infinite; We are made from the image and likeness of God. Man is the ultimate glory of God.

Salvation History/ People of God

-Creation
-Call of Adam
-Promise a savor
-Fulfillment of coming
-Establishment of church

3 things that God wants us to do:
-Doctrine of life- Faith
-Practice of sacramental bible- Spiritual form
-Moral life- Teachings of Christ/ Law of love

3 Sources of determinants of morality
-Object of the act- Act pertaining to the specific nature of the act. Act that distinguish from others, answer the question what the person do.
Specific- Distinct characteristic of the act, the object of the act could be good or bad.
-Motive of the agent- Distinguish between the object of the act. Intention which the agent wants to perform.
-Circumstances- Occasion or event that surrounds the object of the particular human act, it makes it concrete.
 Does not change the morality of the act.
 Aggravates or reduce accountability
 More knowledge- More responsibility

What are these?
1. WHY? Particular motive which the act done
2. HOW?
3. WHO? Poor boy
4. WHOM?
5. WHERE?
6. WHEN? Time
7. WHAT? What did he do

Concept of human act
Human act- Deliberate or under the control one being.
Act of nature- no one is in control, always natural.
Example: Sleeping, Digestive system.

What makes a human act/ Constituents of human act
1. Knowledge- Constituency of human act
- Awareness of the things we do.
2. Freedom- Power to choose for more alternatives
3. Voluntalirism- Comes from the interior deposition of the person

Law

“Ignorance excuses no one”

2 norms in Ethics
1. Natural Law
2. Conscience

Law in Ethics
Law- Ordinance of reasons must have the authority to command or to be followed.
Must be:
 Reasonable
 Must be for the common good
 Right- What is beneficial to the society

Kinds of Law:
Eternal Law- General wisdom directing the actions of wisdom, Command nature of things to be respected.
Natural Law- Human conducts arising to human law. Applicable to human act or actions which governs us.
Positive Law- Implemented by authorities

Conscience
-The quality of practical judgment by which one determine that the act is good or bad.
- Sense of rightness