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Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netEthics are the act of implementation of the agreed moral code.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
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.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Wolff • Ethics and Public Policy
‘Were there a species of creatures intermingled with men, which
though rational, were possessed of such inferior strength, both of body
and mind, that they were incapable of all resistance, and could never,
upon the highest provocation, make us feel the effects of their
resentment; the necessary consequence, I think, is that we should be
bound by the la
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