Mohamed

“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).”
― Joshua D. Greene , Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

“then Rawls may have a point. Even effort can’t be the basis of moral desert. The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable for a further reason: although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don’t really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

“scientific literacy and numeracy were not very good predictors of people’s beliefs about the risks of climate change. Instead, their beliefs were well predicted by their general cultural outlooks—by their tribal memberships (see”
― Joshua D. Greene, 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”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?