Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Killing and Letting Die' and 'Hippias Major'

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7 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

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 / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

299	What is fine is always difficult [Plato]

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

297	What is fine is the parent of goodness [Plato]

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]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

298	While sex is very pleasant, it should be in secret, as it looks contemptible [Plato]