Film Review: Lincoln Six Echo And Jordan Two Delta

“The Island” is a summer movie that deals with numerous moral and ethical issues that can be applied to philosophy. The story follows, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta, two clones who live in a secure underground compound designed for clones, all of which are unaware of the fact that they are clones. All are under the impression that the rest of the world has become to contaminated to sustain human life with the exception of one remote island. A daily lottery is conducted where the winner gets to leave the compound and live on the island, which keeps the clones inspired. Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta eventually discover what they are and what fate awaits them and the other clones. The pair escapes the compound and head out into

Perhaps the most well known is Aquinas Natural Law Theory which states that human beings are both at the mercy of and have admittance to natural law. “God is the end of each thing, and hence, as far as it is possible to it, each thing intends to be united to God at its last end” (Cahn pg. 225, Chp XXV line 9 -11). Aquinas bases multiple natural law precepts on the primary principal, which is simply to achieve or carry out good and avoid evil. Numerous precepts have derived from this including his secondary precept, which has four parts that consist of community, knowing the truth about God, self preservation, procreation and the care of offspring. You achieve true happiness by thoroughly considering and reflecting the truth internally through God you cannot achieve happiness externally. In natural law all your actions have meaning and everything in its entirety has an eventual

From the theories that have been considered I feel the Aristotle’s Virtue Theory is the best solution for this issue. Ethical egoism wouldn’t work in this situation because the clones prove that they have compassion for each another throughout the film, they are not selfish. Cultural Relativism would cause problems because its based on numerous society views and the culture would definitely have conflicting views of the clones. Aquinas Natural Law already doesn’t work because all the clones view Dr. Merrick as the father but in reality he really doesn’t care about their well-being. Aristotelian virtue ethics comes off as the best solution to this ethical dilemma because it shines a good light on the clones. Even though they aren’t technically human because they didn’t grow up and live regular lives, they have as much morality as any human being. Both Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta embody many of the ethical virtues presented by Aristotle. Therefore, if they are capable of these virtues they have to be human on some level. Both are already physically human and throughout the film they demonstrate how they are mentally human as well. If they are physical beings that exhibit intellect, virtue and express human emotion how can view them as