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Which of the following is NOT a reason against applying the principle of totality to nontherapeutic experimentation?
{ 1 } - One person is not related to another person or society simply as a part of the whole.
{ 2 } - Experiments carried out for the good of the state or scientific progress will not certainly provide new knowledge.
{ 3 } - Each individual person is an end in himself and cannot be sacrificed for another, although all share in one common good.
{ 4 } - The public authority has no right to sacrifice individuals for "the interest of the state or for scientific progress."
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Which of the following is NOT a reason against applying the principle of totality to nontherapeutic experimentation?
{ 1 } - One person is not related to another person or society simply as a part of the whole.
{ 2 } - Experiments carried out for the good of the state or scientific progress will not certainly provide new knowledge.
{ 3 } - Each individual person is an end in himself and cannot be sacrificed for another, although all share in one common good.
{ 4 } - The public authority has no right to sacrifice individuals for "the interest of the state or for scientific progress."
See p. 347.
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Which of the following is NOT a reason against applying the principle of totality to nontherapeutic experimentation?
{ 1 } - One person is not related to another person or society simply as a part of the whole.
{ 2 } - Experiments carried out for the good of the state or scientific progress will not certainly provide new knowledge.
{ 3 } - Each individual person is an end in himself and cannot be sacrificed for another, although all share in one common good.
{ 4 } - The public authority has no right to sacrifice individuals for "the interest of the state or for scientific progress."
The problem is not whether they will certainly provide new knowledge, but that if they do so they do it at the expense of human rights and human dignity.
See p. 347.
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Which of the following is NOT a reason against applying the principle of totality to nontherapeutic experimentation?
{ 1 } - One person is not related to another person or society simply as a part of the whole.
{ 2 } - Experiments carried out for the good of the state or scientific progress will not certainly provide new knowledge.
{ 3 } - Each individual person is an end in himself and cannot be sacrificed for another, although all share in one common good.
{ 4 } - The public authority has no right to sacrifice individuals for "the interest of the state or for scientific progress."
See p. 347.
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Which of the following is NOT a reason against applying the principle of totality to nontherapeutic experimentation?
{ 1 } - One person is not related to another person or society simply as a part of the whole.
{ 2 } - Experiments carried out for the good of the state or scientific progress will not certainly provide new knowledge.
{ 3 } - Each individual person is an end in himself and cannot be sacrificed for another, although all share in one common good.
{ 4 } - The public authority has no right to sacrifice individuals for "the interest of the state or for scientific progress."
See p. 347.
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