Author: David Edmonds

Cites

• Philippa Foot (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: The levity of the examples is not meant to offend.
    FROM: The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect, (1967), Essay, UK
• Hugh and Blane, Ralph Martin (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Clang, clang, clang" went the trolley / "Ding, ding, ding" went the bell / "Zing, zing, zing" went my heartstrings / From the moment I saw him fell.
    FROM: "The Trolley Song", (1944), Song, UK
• Saint Augustine (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: How are they free from sin who... have taken a human life?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Numidia
• President Harry S. Truman (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb.
    FROM: Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference, (1945), Speech, US
• J.J. Thomson (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: [The Trolley Problem] a lovely, nasty difficulty.
    FROM: Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory, (1986), Book, UK
• Immanuel Kant (3)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
    FROM: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, (1785), Book, Germany
• R. E. W. Fisher (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am the man, the very fat man, that watered the workers' beer...
    FROM: "The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer", (1938), Song, UK
• Ian Anderson (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Don't want to be a fat man, / People would think that I was / Just good fun. / Would rather be a thin man, / I am so glad to go on being one.
    FROM: "Fat Man", (1969), Song, UK
• Jeremy Bentham (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is the greatest good to be the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
    FROM: A Fragment on Government, (1776), Book, UK
• John Stuart Mill (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: He was not a great philosopher, but he was a great reformer in philosophy.
    FROM: Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical and Historical, (1859), Book, US
• Anton Chekhov (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
    FROM: Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, (1987), Biography, Russia
• Judith Jarvis Thompson (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: A philosophical problem is not an empirical problem.
    FROM: To The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2008), E-mail, US
• Albert Einstein (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: The only really valuable thing is intuition.
    FROM: G.S. Viereck Interview, (1929), Interview, Germany
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Among so many inhuman and bizarre cults, among this prodigious diversity of morals and characters, you will find everywhere the same ideas of justice and decency, everywhere the same notions of good and bad.
    FROM: Emile, or On Education, (1762), Book, France
• Isaac Newton (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
    FROM: Quote on his abilities of calculation after the loss of his investment, (1725), NULL, UK
• David Hume (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1740), Book, UK
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a man has just been greatly honoured and has eaten a little he is at his most charitable.
    FROM: Human, All Too Human, (1880), Book, Germany
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• Aldous Huxley (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: You do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma.
    FROM: Brave New World, (1932), Novel, UK
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
    FROM: To Dorothy Connable, (1953), Letter, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't do trolleys.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL