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Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants: an introduction to ethics
2015, Columbia University Press
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics
2015, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents
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 unaware of the limits of this 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the French.
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