The trolley problem is a classic dilemma in moral philosophy.
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Animals, robots and gods
Webb Keene (Allen Lane)
As far as we know, there is no society without morality. The same set of ethics appears again and again across time and society. Where do concepts of good and evil come from? Is there an ideal way to live?
in Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral ImaginationWebb Keane, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, argues that morality emerges not from universal principles but from the human imagination. For him, moral ideas are…
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