The Tango of Ethics av Jonathan Leighton

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<p>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. <em>The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering</em> proposes a deep, rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics. Eschewing the traditional language of morality, it places a central emphasis on phenomenological experience and the unique urgency of suffering wherever it occurs, challenges our existence bias and examines the consequences of a metaphysically accurate understanding of personal identity.</p><p>A key paradigm in <em>The Tango of Ethics</em> is the conflict and interplay between two fundamentally different ways of seeing and being in the world ¿ that of the intuitive human being who wants to lead a meaningful life and thrive, and that of the detached, rational agent who wants to prevent unbearable suffering from occurring. Leighton aims t