: 推 julians:but how can you ask Aquinas to set aside God? 11/06 23:52 Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I'm not asking Aquinas to set aside God. I'm only saying that whether God exists or not is a questionable assumption. But just for the sake of what I was going to say, I would set that question aside for a moment. Of course, Aquinas bases his philosophy on the teachings of God. btw, I think I have something to add to what I said about dde. It just occured to me that in saying condition (2) must be satisfied, I was actually saying that evil means cannot be used to achieve the good effect of the action. And my earlier formulation of condition (4) might be a bit contentious. Some would argue that the requirement was one concerning proportionality, namely the good effect must be in proportion to the bad effect. okay, this should help to make the dde clearer. An interesting question to ask is whether it is too strict and rule out some actions we normally regard as morally permissible. --

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