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James Wilson on Real World Ethics

2019/9/21
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Are thought experiments the best way of doing practical ethics? Not according to James Wilson). He thinks we need the rich detail of real cases or complex imaginary cases not a simplified version of reality to make sense of the moral problems we face. 

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