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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Morality, Action, and Outcome' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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9 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect

22465

We see a moral distinction between doing and allowing to happen [Foot]

22466

We see a moral distinction between our aims and their foreseen consequences [Foot]

22467

Acts and omissions only matter if they concern doing something versus allowing it [Foot]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism

22470

A good moral system benefits its participants, and so demands reciprocity [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

22468

Virtues can have aims, but good states of affairs are not among them [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

22469

Some virtues imply rules, and others concern attachment [Foot]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]