Moral Choices, ch. 4

Taking the case study of an 80 year old man making a decision about the issue of euthanasia. Rae presents several approaches to the issue embodied by different stakeholders. The patient who holds to ethical egoism. The local head of Hemlock Society who is a deontologist. A physician who is utilitarian. A priest who is is a deontologist. An atheist professory who holds emotivism. An attorney who is a relativist. And, finally, a pastor who is a virtue theorist. I thought this was a helpful way of unpacking the arguments and problems in each with a brief summary of a properly Christian view.