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This document provides information about an exam, Kpe400 4. It covers major topics like ethical dilemmas in sports and biophysics. The exam includes short and long answer questions, focusing on key concepts of different ethical theories. It emphasizes understanding foundational ethical viewpoints and their application.

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Very common in sports Tied into what a human is, philosophy and ethically what is the concept of a human...

Very common in sports Tied into what a human is, philosophy and ethically what is the concept of a human Examples: Glasses for vision loss, hearing aids, etc so common but it’s technology used for our bodies Potential of down syndrome some parents get genome designers or people Shoes to travel around in for our feet to either change that gene like “fix” the disability or abort the child Metal parts in our bodies like hip replacements Mostly men made these decisions Sometimes our body exceeds natural biophysical limitations like: -age, our cells stop being able to reproduce, memory decrease, we don’t even know fully how the brain works - Trans humanism argue that if you could alter your body the way you want, it’d be more fair Trans human: Middle stage, playing around with technology (even using google glasses that have AI in them, you’re accessing a library of info that’s out of this world by this technology Unbound by natural body, can purpose nothing to be different to choose typically don't get CLike WADA chooses what you can't do w/ doping What are the virtues of sport, it’s about seeing what we can do with performance. We don’t know the consequences. You don’t know what will happen (but that means that some people experiment) We ought not to do these things because we ought not to mess around with what it is to be a human being EXAM INFO moved from big ethical questions to so e specific sport and looking at ethical perspectives in context if sport It’s made up of short answer questions and long answer (we have choice in both) Short answers worth five and long answer worth 20 Big scale questions, understand basis Normative and applied you need to know Write about what we think this concept means (hw won’t say name us the 5 deontologist). He might ask “what are the key differences and are there any similarities between consequencliam and virtue ethics He might ask what are the core differences between applied and normative ethics He doesn’t care about the tiny stuff. Know the basics and big approaches Short answer will be “what is this” take a sentence and define it and then explain in 3 sentences. Should only be 3-4 sentences. Get right to the definition and then give an example that’s it. He won’t ask ‘what did Anna say about genetic engineering” Understand rather the big ethical dilemmas like generally what are some ethical issues with biophysical approaches etc

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