Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Among the Dead Cities' and 'Lectures on Ethics'

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5 ideas

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

7293	It is legitimate to do harm if it is the unintended side-effect of an effort to achieve a good [Grayling]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars

7292	War must also have a good chance of success, and be waged with moderation [Grayling]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

19739

The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]