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... consequences ; not right in itself , but because of the results that do or do not follow from it . Kant does not ... consequences is to deny the categorical nature of morality . It is to make its morality depend upon something other than ...
... consequences ; not right in itself , but because of the results that do or do not follow from it . Kant does not ... consequences is to deny the categorical nature of morality . It is to make its morality depend upon something other than ...
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... consequences " is meant , generally , calculating the consequences of classes of actions . There are , as we shall note , exceptions to this , but over all we must look at actions as though multiplied , and in large masses . Take murder ...
... consequences " is meant , generally , calculating the consequences of classes of actions . There are , as we shall note , exceptions to this , but over all we must look at actions as though multiplied , and in large masses . Take murder ...
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... consequences ? Because we cannot predict every effect which may follow from a person's death , are we to say that we cannot know that murder would be destructive to human happi- ness ? Whether morality is or is not a question of ...
... consequences ? Because we cannot predict every effect which may follow from a person's death , are we to say that we cannot know that murder would be destructive to human happi- ness ? Whether morality is or is not a question of ...
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