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Cathcart Thomas - The Trolley Problem Or Would You Throw The Fat Guy Off The Bridge? A Philosophical Conundrum - Hardcover
Cathcart Thomas - The Trolley Problem Or Would You Throw The Fat Guy Off The Bridge? A Philosophical Conundrum - Hardcover
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Description: A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You a bystander happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley which would save the five but sacrifice the one do you pull it? Or say you re watching from an overpass. The only way to save the workers is to drop a heavy object in the trolley's path. And you re standing next to a really fat man . This ethical conundrum based on British philosopher Philippa Foot's 1967 thought experiment has inspired decades of lively argument around the world. Now Thomas Cathcart coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar brings his sharp intelligence quirky humor and gift for popularizing serious ideas to the trolley problem. Framing the issue as a possible crime that is to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion Cathcart explores philosophy and ethics intuition and logic. Along the way he makes connections to the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham Kant's limits of reason St. Thomas Aquinas's fascinating Principle of Double Effect and more. Read with an open mind this provocative book will challenge your deepest held notions of right and wrong. Would you divert the trolley? Kill one to save five? Would you throw the fat man off the bridge?
Title: The Trolley Problem Or Would You Throw The Fat Guy Off The Bridge? A Philosophical Conundrum
Author(s): Cathcart Thomas
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9780761175131
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2013
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You a bystander happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley which would save the five but sacrifice the one do you pull it? Or say you re watching from an overpass. The only way to save the workers is to drop a heavy object in the trolley's path. And you re standing next to a really fat man . This ethical conundrum based on British philosopher Philippa Foot's 1967 thought experiment has inspired decades of lively argument around the world. Now Thomas Cathcart coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar brings his sharp intelligence quirky humor and gift for popularizing serious ideas to the trolley problem. Framing the issue as a possible crime that is to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion Cathcart explores philosophy and ethics intuition and logic. Along the way he makes connections to the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham Kant's limits of reason St. Thomas Aquinas's fascinating Principle of Double Effect and more. Read with an open mind this provocative book will challenge your deepest held notions of right and wrong. Would you divert the trolley? Kill one to save five? Would you throw the fat man off the bridge?
Title: The Trolley Problem Or Would You Throw The Fat Guy Off The Bridge? A Philosophical Conundrum
Author(s): Cathcart Thomas
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9780761175131
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2013
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
