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'Parmenides', 'Morality, Action, and Outcome' and 'Treatise of Human Nature'
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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For Hume, practical reason has little force, because we can always modify our desires [Hume, by Graham]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
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Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will [Hume]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
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You can only hold people responsible for actions which arise out of their character [Hume]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect
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We see a moral distinction between doing and allowing to happen [Foot]
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We see a moral distinction between our aims and their foreseen consequences [Foot]
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Acts and omissions only matter if they concern doing something versus allowing it [Foot]
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