{"id":6031,"date":"2020-08-19T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-jonathan-quong\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:19:29","slug":"ceppa-talk-jonathan-quong","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-jonathan-quong\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk &#8211; Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abstract:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;padding-left: 40px\"><em>Flood<\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0 Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them. The water can be diverted into a mineshaft, but innocent Betty is trapped in the mineshaft and will be killed if the water is redirected. Albert is a bystander who has seen and understood the whole situation, and he stands next to a switch that can divert the flood. He can easily flip the switch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When considering cases like this, some people believe that Albert is morally required to save the five at the cost of Betty\u2019s life (<em>the requirement thesis<\/em>). Others believe that Albert is permitted but not required to save the five (<em>the permissive thesis<\/em>). I argue in favor of the permissive thesis and against the requirement thesis. I conclude by considering some further implications for the ethics of self-defense and war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil Abstract: Flood:\u00a0\u00a0 Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-6031","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6031\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}