Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Possible Worlds' and 'Killing and Letting Die'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

15789

Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

15790

Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]

15791

What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

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

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]