Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Finding the good …

… Joshua Greene’s Moral Tribes Reviewed by Thomas Nagel | New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It seems to me that difference between the footbridge dilemma and the switch dilemma is that the former entails a direct assault on a person, using that person as a means to an end, whereas the latter entails an action that has a grievous collateral consequence. So in the latter you have something on the order of the principle of double effect.

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