堕胎问题与双重效应学说

简介

Foot published the essay in 1967 in the Oxford Review, at a time when abortion law was being debated in Britain. She examines the Catholic doctrine of double effect, which distinguishes what one intends from what one merely foresees. To test it she compares cases: a judge who could frame and execute an innocent man to prevent a riot, and the driver of a runaway tram who can steer from a track where five are working onto one where only one is working. Foot suggests that a distinction between negative duties (not to harm) and positive duties (to help) explains our intuitions better. Judith Jarvis Thomson later named the case the trolley problem and added new variants.

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• 意向1957 · G. E. M. 安斯康姆

被承接于

• 杀死、任其死亡与电车难题1976 · 朱迪斯·贾维斯·汤姆森

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