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23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone?

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface: An Antimanual of Ethics vii
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction: What is the Use of Thought Experiments? xiii
  6. Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles
  7. 1. Emergencies 1
  8. 2. The Child Who is Drowning in a Pond 11
  9. 3. A Transplant Gone Mad 15
  10. 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd 17
  11. 5. The Killer Trolley 24
  12. 6. Incest in All Innocence 42
  13. 7. The Amoralist 56
  14. 8. The Experience Machine 65
  15. 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All? 71
  16. 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born 73
  17. 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them? 76
  18. 12. The Utility Monster 89
  19. 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back 91
  20. 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health 94
  21. 15. Who Am I Without My Organs? 100
  22. 16. And If Sexuality Were Free? 104
  23. 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil 107
  24. 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance 109
  25. 19. Monsters and Saints 113
  26. Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral “Cuisine”
  27. 20. Intuitions and Rules 131
  28. 21. A Little Method! 134
  29. 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions? 138
  30. 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone? 142
  31. 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More 151
  32. 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning 154
  33. 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument 163
  34. Conclusion 173
  35. Glossary 181
  36. Notes 191
  37. Index 219
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
This chapter is in the book Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
https://doi.org/10.7312/ogie16922-025

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface: An Antimanual of Ethics vii
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction: What is the Use of Thought Experiments? xiii
  6. Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles
  7. 1. Emergencies 1
  8. 2. The Child Who is Drowning in a Pond 11
  9. 3. A Transplant Gone Mad 15
  10. 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd 17
  11. 5. The Killer Trolley 24
  12. 6. Incest in All Innocence 42
  13. 7. The Amoralist 56
  14. 8. The Experience Machine 65
  15. 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All? 71
  16. 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born 73
  17. 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them? 76
  18. 12. The Utility Monster 89
  19. 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back 91
  20. 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health 94
  21. 15. Who Am I Without My Organs? 100
  22. 16. And If Sexuality Were Free? 104
  23. 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil 107
  24. 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance 109
  25. 19. Monsters and Saints 113
  26. Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral “Cuisine”
  27. 20. Intuitions and Rules 131
  28. 21. A Little Method! 134
  29. 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions? 138
  30. 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone? 142
  31. 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More 151
  32. 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning 154
  33. 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument 163
  34. Conclusion 173
  35. Glossary 181
  36. Notes 191
  37. Index 219
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