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absolutism, moral
The view that certain kinds of actions are always wrong or are always obligatory, whatever the consequences. Typical candidates for such absolute principles would be that it is always wrong ...
acts/omissions doctrine
The doctrine that it makes an ethical difference whether an agent actively intervenes to bring about a result, or omits to act in circumstances in which it is foreseen that as a result of the ...
double effect Reference library
Nicholas Dent
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
The ‘doctrine of double effect’is a thesis in the philosophy of action which is put to use in moral choice and moral assessment. In many actions we may identify the central, directly ...
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ends and means
The end of an action is that for the sake of which it is performed; the means is the way in which the end is to be achieved. The distinction arises in connection with various moral principles (you ...
per accidens
(Latin, by accident)In scholastic thought that which is per accidens belongs to a substance more or less fortuitously, and is contrasted with that which is per se, or through itself, i.e. that ...
principle
The history of philosophy abounds in principles: the principle of sufficient reason, Hume's principle (‘No ought from an is’), the principle of double effect … A principle will often be ...
trolley problem
Problem in ethics posed by the English philosopher Philippa Foot in her ‘The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect’ (Oxford Review, 1967). A runaway train or trolley comes to a ...
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