15:14:00 Hello, this is Biomedical Ethics and room Professor Philip green.
15:14:07 This video deals with the opening of Module Two of the course in with ethical principle.
15:14:15 It''s the most important module over the course.
15:14:17 It''s two weeks long or twice as long as the other modules. That''s because it''s foundational very important ideas are being provided to you. In this module, the ethical principles or the ideas about what makes a human action morally good or otherwise,
15:14:36 based on a principle you can build up some rules as to what is good and what is particular behavior.
15:14:44 And those rules or ideas or name for the basis for morality.
15:14:51 If a person acts in accordance with those rules, they said to be moral if they violate the rules they said to be immoral.
15:14:57 And there are some people who simply don''t care about the rules don''t know about the rules, called moral.
15:15:04 There are also things that are non moral decisions about what to make for dinner are usually not involved with a moral kind of dilemma.
15:15:15 What tool to use to open
15:15:19 object, the can, or device. What so screwdriver. These are not model question will be dealing with moral issues, moral dilemmas moral questions and moral problems in the realm of medicine, medical practice and health care.
15:15:36 Well this semester.
15:15:38 At the start of this module, we try to get into ideas about morality itself. what''s the basis for morality.
15:15:46 Where do people get their ideas about what the more good would be.
15:15:51 And we look into how it is that humans have such ideas in the first place, like good on it. Why should we even care about being in the first place.
15:16:03 And it will turn out if you''re careful, the readings and think about it, that some common ideas these days about morality are simply not true, such as that person or group of people cannot be more or less they believe in God or a group of people and individuals
15:16:21 and individuals cannot be moral unless they have some kind of religious background, those ideas are not true.
15:16:29 Why do we know that they''re not true because whether it''s evidence that each of you probably know all about. And that would be that you know people perhaps yourself included, who are not involved in any religious tradition, don''t participate or whole
15:16:45 religious beliefs, don''t believe in frontier of any kind, and yet they behave.
15:16:53 Same as most of the people.
15:16:55 So, if that class.
15:16:57 If it''s actual, then it can''t be that morality is based on either believe in the God or religion. In fact, there are countries in the world who have no belief in the day, such as Buddhists, Buddhist or confusions or doubts.
15:17:13 But those are religions, you said, well there are countries in the world where that titled secular because most of the people live in those countries, declare that they have no religious affiliations at all.
15:17:25 And yet they behave pretty much as people do in other countries.
15:17:30 In fact, there are some studies that show that people in a secular society are subject to extremely violent crime less often than people in religious societies societies in which most of the people would
15:17:47 to one another week is creation.
15:17:48 So we''ll see in this chapter this module of the course, that if you look carefully at the basis for human beings, wanting to do the right thing. not to be harming other people.
15:18:01 We find that it''s rooted in the same things that researchers, find in other primates, not just in gorillas chimpanzees orangutans and monkeys and other animals as well.
15:18:14 If there is a community of beings who have sensibilities.
15:18:21 The ability to sense that it turns out there are certain ideas that they have certain things functioning in the brain feelings of empathy and sympathy, that serve as the basis for, they''re not doing certain things that we would call moral rules.