Moral Shock and Trans ‘Worlds’ of Sense | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

As issues are moralized, the scripts governing how we negotiate them likewise shift, and we can be caught off-guard, or uncertain about the norms that apply, during the transition. There’s room here for both genuine ambiguity, issues that are not determinately moral or personal, or that occupy both spheres, and epistemic uncertainty, where there ma

Recognising the role of moral luck encourages empathy and humility, but it also threatens the notions of culpability that help us to make sense of evil.

A state of shock is what happens to us—individually or as a society—when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have an adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives to explain that event. Being creatures of narrative, humans tend to

The information is almost always distressing and, to many, shocking—but in my view, the goal should never be to put readers into a state of shock. It should be to pull them out of it.