Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Hermarchus, Philippa Foot and Jens Zimmermann
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18 ideas
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot]
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Practical reason is goodness in choosing actions [Foot]
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All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will [Foot]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
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Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot]
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I don't understand the idea of a reason for acting, but it is probably the agent's interests or desires [Foot]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
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It is an odd Humean view to think a reason to act must always involve caring [Foot]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas
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There is no restitution after a dilemma, if it only involved the agent, or just needed an explanation [Foot, by PG]
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I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does [Foot]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect
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A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot]
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We see a moral distinction between doing and allowing to happen [Foot]
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The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot]
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Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot]
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Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot]
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Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot]
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We see a moral distinction between our aims and their foreseen consequences [Foot]
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Acts and omissions only matter if they concern doing something versus allowing it [Foot]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions
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It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]
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Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]
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