Book description
Despite existing for thousands of years, the field of ethics remains strongly influenced by several largely unquestioned assumptions and cognitive biases that can dramatically affect our priorities. The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering proposes a deep, rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics. Eschewingā¦
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Jonathan Leighton is one of only a few contemporary writers exploring theĀ often very troublingĀ implications of an ethical stance that puts the recognition, reduction, and prevention of the suffering of sentient beings (including animals) first.
And Leighton has set upĀ theĀ Organisation for the Prevention of Intense SufferingĀ to translate his writings into action. In addition to being a reader, I have come to support the work ofĀ thisĀ organisation.
The Tango of EthicsĀ should perhaps come with a warning (or is this a kind of promise?): After readingĀ this book, you may never see the worldā¦
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