The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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Page 146
... action , perhaps , more understand- able , but why would his decision have been merely " influenced " had the mother ... action . For example , giving an overdose of drugs to a terminal cancer patient who is in deep pain . " In that case ...
... action , perhaps , more understand- able , but why would his decision have been merely " influenced " had the mother ... action . For example , giving an overdose of drugs to a terminal cancer patient who is in deep pain . " In that case ...
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... action that , although not morally bad , yet it does not deserve moral praise . You may have acted , he would say , in accordance with duty ( you did what was right ) , but not from a sense of duty ( because it was right ) . The ...
... action that , although not morally bad , yet it does not deserve moral praise . You may have acted , he would say , in accordance with duty ( you did what was right ) , but not from a sense of duty ( because it was right ) . The ...
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... actions is desire for plea- sure ; the other is ethical or normative , stating what our standard for action ought to be . One is a statement concerning the way things are , the other is a proposal concerning the way they ought to be ...
... actions is desire for plea- sure ; the other is ethical or normative , stating what our standard for action ought to be . One is a statement concerning the way things are , the other is a proposal concerning the way they ought to be ...
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It began here | 11 |
And so I go about the world | 29 |
Aristotle and the art of thinking | 67 |
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