Minimum Conception In James Rachel's 'What Is Morality'

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In James Rachels’s “What is Morality”, Rachels dissects the idea of a minimum conception and examines various moral dilemmas. His idea of minimum conception is not to narrow down morality, but to narrow down the aspects or “cores” of morality. Rachels believes that this can be used develop a universal morality that can apply to every situation. In second part of the article, Rachels presents three examples of real life moral dilemmas and two opposing views for each situation. This examples touch on the issue of euthanasia, but have different purposes and consequences. Rachels ends this article by addressing the importance reasoning and impartiality, which factors back in to the idea of minimum conception. Rachels is correct when it comes to

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