Introspective, psuedo-stream of consciousness, pseudo-Kantian line of reasoning
I was at a medical ethics lecture at University this morning, ethics being a philosophical subject which I’m quite passionate about, and afterwards while I was driving home, I developed this long, introspective, psuedo-stream of consciousness, pseudo-Kantian line of reasoning regarding my own views on the matter. I told myself to scribble it all down as soon as I got home, and now I can’t remember any of it. I hate when that happens. Although I can quite easily put it down to the fact that I’ve been up since 5am, ie *checks clock* for 20 1/2 hours. No wonder I’m rabbiting on about bullshit. *falls off chair*
*edit* Oh, bits are starting to come back to me. Something about utilitarianism, something about whether or not a hypothetical medical study which leads to the participants dying slow, painful deaths is any less ethical than a hypothetical study which leads to the participants dying quick, painless deaths. Then some technical jargon about ethical and moral relativism, leading to the conclusion that morality is bullshit because there is no unquestionable deontological good/evil litmus test, and how morals and ethics are, in fact, one and the same, and is constantly evolving along with society. Something like that anyway. I’m sure it’ll all come rushing back to me in the morning, where my well-rested mind can dismiss it as the incomprehensible gibberish of an exhausted mind,. Nighty night.