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The Aspiration to Neutrality cont.

Pros & Cons

Abortion, Stem-Cell Research and Same Sex Marriage

- separating religion and values from debate

Abortion & Stem Cell Research Debates

Sides of the arguments

Pro-Life

It's a...

Baby

Pro-Choice

Mass of Cells and Tissue

- It is not always possible to answer questions of justice and rights without defining the morality of a situation

- MAIN QUESTION- what do you feel about the implantation idea?

"It presupposes an answer to the controversy- namely that the pre-implantation embryo destroyed in the course of embryonic stem cell research is not yet a human being." (Sandel, 253)

Same Sex Marriage

1. Recognize only marriages between a man and a woman

2. Recognize same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage

3. Don't recognize marriage of any kind

The Aspiration to Neutrality

Justice and the Good Life

Barak Obama

John F. Kennedy

Justice

- means maximizing utility or welfare and creating the greatest happiness for the greatest number

religion is private

Christian

Justice and the

Common Good

- means respecting freedom of choice

invoked liberal neutrality

young

eloquent

inspiring

politician

-Libertarian views & Liberal Egalitarian views

rejects liberal neutrality

- involves cultivating virtue and reasoning about the common good

Roman Catholic

A Politics and the Common Good

" The challenge is to imagine a politics that takes moral and spiritual questions seriously, but brings them to bear on broad economic and civic concerns, not only on sex and abortion." (Sandel, 262)

1. Citizen, sacrifice and service

2. The mortal limits of markets

3. Inequality, solidarity and civic virtue

4. A politics of moral engagement

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