11 ideas
| 4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
| 4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
| 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] |
| 541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
| 22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |
| 4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
| 542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |