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All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Killing and Letting Die' and 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

15990

Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

15994

If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]

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]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

20765

Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]

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]