13 ideas
| 22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
| 22086 | The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 22410 | Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B] |
| 22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
| 22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
| 22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
| 22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
| 22408 | Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B] |
| 22411 | For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B] |
| 22409 | We don't have a duty to ensure that others do their duty [Williams,B] |
| 22463 | Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot] |
| 22407 | Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B] |
| 22459 | For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot] |