Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Quest for Certainty' and 'Killing and Letting Die'

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]