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A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
The problem of free will has been identified in ancient Greek philosophical literature. The notion of compatibilist free will has been attributed to both Aristotle (4th century BCE) and Epictetus (1st century CE): "it was the fact that nothing hindered us from doing or choosing something that made us have control over them".
[1] Several styles of Obligationes were distinguished in the medieval literature with the most widely studied being called " positio " (positing). "Obligational" disputations resemble recent theories of counterfactual reasoning and are believed to precede the modern practice of the academic "thesis defense."
The questions here are always trivial options, the hypotheses are hardly living (at any rate not living for us spectators), the choice between believing truth or falsehood is seldom forced." James concludes this section by asking us to agree "that wherever there is no forced option, the dispassionately judicial intellect with no pet hypothesis ...
Add 1/2 c. water to bottom of pan and tightly cover with foil. Bake onions until tender, 75 to 90 minutes (the centers should be easily pierced with a fork or a metal cake tester). Remove from ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren insinuated that there are concerns that Army veteran Pete Hegseth could be an "insider threat" due to his Christian tattoo and seethed over his crusade against woke military ...
In late July, Super Micro's auditor at the time, Ernst & Young (EY), raised concerns about the company's governance, transparency and internal control over financial reporting, prompting its board ...
The right to life is the belief that a human (or other animal) has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity. The concept of a right to life arises in debates on issues including: capital punishment, with some people seeing it as immoral; abortion, with some considering the killing of a human embryo or fetus immoral; euthanasia, in which the decision to end ...