My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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