The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering
Jonathan Leighton, "The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering"
English | ISBN: 1788360885 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1788360885 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Despite existing for thousands of years, the field of ethics remains strongly influenced by several largely unquestioned assumptions and cognitive biases that can dramatically affect our priorities. The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering proposes a deep, rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics. Eschewing the traditional language of morality, it places a central emphasis on phenomenological experience and the unique urgency of suffering wherever it occurs, challenges our existence bias and examines the consequences of a metaphysically accurate understanding of personal identity.
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