Deontological ethics is a rule-based approach to morality asserting that certain actions are inherently right or wrong, regardless of their consequences. When dealing with the problem of harm, deontologists must navigate complex boundaries between doing and allowing harm, intending versus foreseeing
The Experience Machine is a famous philosophical thought experiment devised by Robert Nozick in 1974 to challenge ethical hedonism by asking whether people would choose to plug into a machine that simulates a perfect, pleasurable life.
The Ship of Theseus is a classic philosophical thought experiment that questions whether an object remains fundamentally the same after all of its original components have been replaced over time.
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