Your text indicates five distinct criteria that the so-called Method II arguments may use to determine the moral status of a being (such as a fetus) : 1. Being Human, 2. Being Like Human, 3. Potentiality, 4. Evolving Value, or 5. Actuality. For the following Method II claims, determine which of these five criteria is being employed?

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Cecelia Ross

5 October, 06:25

Your text indicates five distinct criteria that the so-called Method II arguments may use to determine the moral status of a being (such as a fetus) : 1. Being Human, 2. Being Like Human, 3. Potentiality, 4. Evolving Value, or 5. Actuality. For the following Method II claims, determine which of these five criteria is being employed?

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Landyn Li · Answer 1

Complete question:

"Though human, this fetus does not have the potential to develop the abilities of a person, for it has no upper brain. Thus, it does not have full rights to life." Which Method II criterion is assumed by this claim?

The correct answer is:

5. Actuality

Explanation:

Actuality method is a term used to show that something, or in this case someone exists in time and space, nevertheless there is only a possibility that it can exist. This is a term used mainly in philosophy to show that something exists, however, it can be that it does not develop or take its real shape.