A star not yet lit · Philosophy
The Trolley Problem
When is it right to cause harm to prevent more?
When is it right to cause harm to prevent more? That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- The Categorical Imperative
- Utilitarianism
- The Veil of Ignorance
- Sympatheia
- Plato's Allegory of the Cave
- Living According to Nature
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