Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants : an introduction to ethics / Ruwen Ogien ; translated by Martin Thom.
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- ISBN: 9780231169226
- ISBN: 0231169221
- ISBN: 9780231169233
- ISBN: 023116923X
- Physical Description: xxiii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: An antimanual of ethics -- Introduction: What is the use of thought experiments? -- Part I. Problems, dilemmas, and paradoxes: nineteen moral puzzles. -- Emergencies -- The child who is drowning in a pond -- A transplant gone mad -- Confronting a furious crowd -- The killer trolley -- Incest in all innocence -- The amoralist -- The experience machine -- Is a short a mediocre life preferable to no life at all? -- I would have preferred never to have been born -- Must we eliminate animals in order to liberate them? -- The utility monster -- A violinist has been plugged into your back -- Frankenstein, minister of health -- Who am I without my organs? -- And if sexuality were free? -- It is harder to do good intentionally than it is to do evil -- We are free, even if everything is written in advance -- Monsters and saints -- Part II. The ingredients of the moral "cuisine." -- Intuitions and rules -- A little method! -- What remains of our moral intuitions? -- Where has the moral instinct gone? -- A philosopher aware of the limits of his moral intuitions is worth two others, indeed more -- Understand the elementary rules of moral reasoning -- Dare to criticize the elementary rules of moral argument -- Conclusion. |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
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Subject: | Ethics. |
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