10 ideas
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
22384 | A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot] |
22385 | The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot] |
22386 | Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot] |
22387 | Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot] |
22388 | Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |