The moral significance of primitive self-consciousness: a response to Bermudez

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Close-to-term fetuses may also have a primitive form of self-consciousness. The possibility that they can possess the moral significance associated with primitive self-consciousness is consistent with Jose Luis Bermudez's argument on the moral significance of birth. His three features of primitive self-consciousness are a primitive body image, a distinction between self and other, and acknowledgment that the other is of the same kind as oneself.

Fetus, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Self-consciousness, Self consciousness (Emotion)

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Moral institutions, cognitive psychology, and the harming-versus-not-aiding distinction

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Cognitive psychology can help illuminate the questions of moral philosophy. The situation of harm-versus-not-aid is significantly different from loss-versus-no-gain, especially since people tend to regard changes rather than end states as "bearers of utility." Normative theory based on the loss-versus-no-gain model does not account for situations where people tolerate loss for the sake of greater gain.

Ethical aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Ethics, Cognitive psychology, Kahneman, Daniel, Tversky, Amos

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Medicalization as a moral problem for preventive medicine

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Preventive heath care programs associated with the concept of "medicalization" can be morally problematic because moral institutions are expressed by individuals regarding prevention and health promotion. Moral arguments and phenomena concerning preventive medicine and medicalization are anlaysized.

Preventive health services, Preventive medicine, Medicine, Preventive

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