Question
Work on the Leonine Edition of the complete works of this philosopher, which started in 1879, is about halfway done. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this philosopher who included five arguments for the existence of God in his Summa Theologica.
ANSWER: St. Thomas Aquinas [or Thomas of Aquino or Tommaso d'Aquino; prompt on Doctor Angelicus or Doctor Communis or Doctor Humanitatis]
[10h] Aquinas was one of the earliest thinkers to outline this idea, that if a good act has some negative effects, it is justifiable only if the nature of the act is good and the negative effects are unintentional.
ANSWER: doctrine of double effect [or principle of double effect or rule of double effect or DDE or PDE or double-effect reasoning]
[10m] This thought experiment was first proposed in a 1967 paper on the doctrine of double effect. One variant of this experiment involves pushing a fat person off a bridge.
ANSWER: trolley problem
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 50% | 100% | 25% |
Data
| Rutgers | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Swarthmore A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Swarthmore B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | University of Delaware A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |