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Applied EthicsIntermediate14 minPlanned

Lying and Promise-Keeping

The murderer at the door, Kant's absolutism about truthfulness, and Ross's answer that duties can be overridden without being cancelled

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definemoral absolutismmoral dilemma
Assumesdeontologyconsequentialismmoral principlereflective equilibriumcategorical imperativeuniversalizabilityprima facie duty