Author: Edward Hungerford
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Robert Scott Lovett
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Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Charles Francis Adams
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Author: National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: David Edmonds
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691165637
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man.
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: Albert Fink
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Thomas Cathcart
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761178708
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You, a bystander, happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley, which would save the five, but sacrifice the one—do you pull it? Or say you’re watching from an overpass. The only way to save the workers is to drop a heavy object in the trolley’s path. And you’re standing next to a really fat man…. This ethical conundrum—based on British philosopher Philippa Foot’s 1967 thought experiment—has inspired decades of lively argument around the world. Now Thomas Cathcart, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, brings his sharp intelligence, quirky humor, and gift for popularizing serious ideas to “the trolley problem.” Framing the issue as a possible crime that is to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion, Cathcart explores philosophy and ethics, intuition and logic. Along the way he makes connections to the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, Kant’s limits of reason, St. Thomas Aquinas’s fascinating Principle of Double Effect, and more. Read with an open mind, this provocative book will challenge your deepest held notions of right and wrong. Would you divert the trolley? Kill one to save five? Would you throw the fat man off the bridge?
Author: Frances Myrna Kamm
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190247150
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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'The Trolley Problem Mysteries' considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others.