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    Challenges→It is morally permissible to bring about and maintain a belief for which one lacks adequate evidence when doing so is necessary to save humankind.

    Bernard Williams argued that integrity requires that an agent's actions flow from their own commitments; chemically induced belief severs the causal link between self and doxastic state.

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    Bernard Williams(as a defender of Humean philosophy)
    A late 20th-century British philosopher who wrote influential works on ethics, questioning whether morality can be truly objective and exploring the role of personal projects and desires in a good life.
    Causal link(as used in metaphysics)
    A direct connection where one thing (the cause) brings about or produces another thing (the effect).
    Chemically induced belief(as an example that severs integrity)
    A belief created by taking a drug or chemical that changes your brain, rather than a belief you formed through your own thinking and experience.
    Commitments(as part of your mental states to review)
    Things you've decided to believe in or stand by—like moral principles or goals you're dedicated to.
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    (Presented as a necessary condition for being an agent at all)
    The coherent unity of agency achieved through commitment to morality and universal principles of self-government.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    doxastic state(as used in epistemology)
    A mental condition involving what you believe; basically, what's going on in your mind when you hold a belief.

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