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The duty to not harm others. This includes acts
Non-maleficience committed or omitted. One example would be if a
doctor forgot to give a patient the correct care.
What did WD Ross That they are self-evident. He called them prima
believe about certain facie duties.
basic moral principles?
They may not be self-evident to those who are
Problem with prima facie
intellectually immature or those who haven't thought
duties
about it enough.
From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to describe
Double-effect principle situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
controversial, especially among utilitarians.
We should help others in If there is little risk and even if it is not in our self-
danger interest.
He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law,
Joel Feinberg which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of
government intervention in individual freedom.
1. The Harm Principle (originally from John Stuart
Mill)
The Moral Limits of the
2. The Offence Principle
Criminal Law
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
Having a person or the government do what they
think is best for you, even if it goes against your
Paternalism wishes. Feinberg rejected this hard, where
competent adults would have their liberty restricted
to prevent them from harming themselves.
Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct that
Offense Principle
seriously offends others.
It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior, even if
Legal Moralism nobody is harmed or offended. One example would
be a community banning homosexual acts.
Is the existence of multiple legal systems within one
Legal Pluralism
(human) population and/or geographic area.
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