Requirements of Morality

• Reason


  The ability to think and make good decisions
• Role of reason in moral decision

  • Strengthens our inner disposition to guide our conduct and to do what could have been the best reason for doing an act
  • Supports us to make our moral views more consistent with each other
  • Applies critical analysis to specific events to determine what is right or wrong, and what people ought to do in a particular situation
• Minimum requirements for morality


  • Impartiality
  • Impartiality holds presumption
• Impartiality


  The fact of not supporting any of the sides involved in an argument
• Impartiality holds presumptions


  • Each individual's interests are equally important
  • Each must acknowledge other person's welfare is equally important as our own
  • Impartiality entails a proscription against arbitrariness in dealing with people
  • Impartiality generates arguments from varied viewpoints
  • Impartiality provides alternatives which increase our chance of finding the best solution to the moral problem
• Argument from the legal standpoint


  A set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions are made, referring to the perspective of the law when analyzing or interpreting something
• Argument from the religious standpoint


  Religious beliefs that are primary influences the moral stance of a person to legalized a matter to the extent of defying common reasons and medical expositions
• Argument from the medical standpoint


  The responses of medical Practitioners on the issue of a certain matter according to demographic background, where the doctor's advice (or the support for it) is not always immediately acceptable to the patient, and the medical advice might mean the patient has to drastically change their behavior