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Ideas for Bernard Williams, Immanuel Kant and Cleanthes
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
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Most women see an early miscarriage and a late stillbirth as being very different in character [Williams,B]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide [Kant]
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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
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Non-rational beings only have a relative value, as means rather than as ends [Kant]
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Men can only have duties to those who qualify as persons [Kant]
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Cruelty to animals is bad because it dulls our empathy for pain in humans [Kant]
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Speciesism isn't like racism, because the former implies a viewpoint which belongs to no one [Williams,B]
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