10 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
22384 | A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot] |
22385 | The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot] |
22386 | Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot] |
22388 | Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot] |
22387 | Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot] |
22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |