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What is the principle of double effect, and when does it apply in medicine?
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Omar Farouk
Bioethics
Medieval Christian
Scholasticism
#double-effect
#medical-ethics
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Sep 2026
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Is Aquinas’s First Way really about a first moment in time?
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Aoife Brennan
Causation
Medieval Christian
Scholasticism
#first-cause
#infinite-regress
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Sep 2026