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“We can use manual mode thinking to explicitly describe our automatic settings (Aristotle); we can use manual mode thinking to justify our automatic settings (Kant); and we can use manual mode thinking to transcend the limitations of our automatic settings (Bentham and Mill).”
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If reason determines my will, then the will becomes the power to choose independent of the dictates of nature or inclination”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“The more we regard our success as our own doing, the less responsibility we feel for those who fall behind.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“Science can investigate nature and inquire into the empirical world, but it cannot answer moral questions or disprove
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Mohamed’s 2025 Year in Books
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