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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants : An Introduction to Ethics /
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wron...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: An Antimanual of Ethics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What is the Use of Thought Experiments?
- Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles
- 1. Emergencies
- 2. The Child Who is Drowning in a Pond
- 3. A Transplant Gone Mad
- 4. Confronting a Furious Crowd
- 5. The Killer Trolley
- 6. Incest in All Innocence
- 7. The Amoralist
- 8. The Experience Machine
- 9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All?
- 10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born
- 11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them?
- 12. The Utility Monster
- 13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back
- 14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health
- 15. Who Am I Without My Organs?
- 16. And If Sexuality Were Free?
- 17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil
- 18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance
- 19. Monsters and Saints
- Part II. The Ingredients of the Moral "Cuisine"
- 20. Intuitions and Rules
- 21. A Little Method!
- 22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions?
- 23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone?
- 24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More
- 25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning
- 26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral Argument
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index