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All the ideas for 'Morality, Action, and Outcome', 'talk' and 'Letter to Pythocles'

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation
21386 We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]
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 / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
21432 Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
14051 A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism
1828 God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]