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All the ideas for 'Killing and Letting Die', 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch' and 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences'

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5 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

20643

Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

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]