Sublime

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.

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie

How can we make sense of these gradations of moral responsibility when brains and their background influences are in every case, and to exactly the same degree, the real cause of a woman’s death?