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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Means principle."”.
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… part turns to normative ethics, dealing with principles of welfare, justice and basic rights. It tackles problems ranging from population ethics to non-ideal theory. Finally, the third part moves to applied (animal) ethics, In analogy to optical illusions, I demonstrate that speciesism is not …
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Second thoughts about double effect.
In this dissertation I explore objections to the ethical doctrine known as the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) and its applications to issues in war and medicine. DDE maintains that it is harder to justify causing harm intentionally than it is to justify causing it foreseeably. Some of the …