Medical Ethics
Requirements
● Your paper must be in response to the paper prompt below. Papers that do not meet this requirement will receive zeros.
● Your paper must be at most 600 words in length. Papers that are more than 600 words in length will for this reason be docked one third of a letter grade.
A paper will not be read beyond its 600th word, if it has one. There is no minimum permissible word count.
Paper Prompt
On p. 609 of “A Right of Self-Termination?” David Velleman claims that “Value requires a potential valuer but not a potential beneficiary.” Explain in your own words, but making good use of the text itself what Velleman means by this claim, and how he defends it in the passage in which it appears.
Space permitting, you may also assess some part of Velleman’s reasoning, by (say) raising an objection to some premise Velleman endorses or some inference Velleman makes, but you need not do so.
