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Thomas Says: Why You Can (And Should) Kill in Self-Defense, Part 1

January 12th, 2010 | 5 min read

By Gary Hartenburg

Fewer topics in Thomas’s moral philosophy have received more attention than his treatment of what has come to be known as double-effect. What is particularly interesting is that Thomas manages to inspire such interest in the space of one paragraph, namely, the paragraph in which he answers that it is lawful to kill a person in self-defense.

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