Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?

but until the point where these questions get entwined with questions of justice—or otherwise secure untimely status, as they might for those whose identities are bound up with certain favorite novels or films—we do not tend to become angry, hostile, or defensive.

Hume’s pluralist, sentimentalist, and naturalist approach to ethics is more promising than utilitarianism or deontology for modern moral psychology. As a first step in resuming Hume’s project, we should try to identify the taste receptors of the righteous mind.

In his desire to wrest sole control of risk policy from experts, Slovic has challenged the foundation of their expertise: the idea that risk is objective.

moral reasoning was often a servant of moral emotions,