Day: January 18, 2022
Obligations and the Obligatory
What is the connection between our moral rights and duties and what we ought to do? What principles bridge these different forms of moral talk?...
Means and Ends
Consider this principle proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in The Realm of Rights.
The Sole-Means Principle for Permissibility: If the only means X has of doing Beta is doing Alpha , then it would be permissible for X to do beta if and only if it would permissible for X to do alpha.
If the Sole Means Principle (SMP) ...