Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants

Preface: An Antimanual of EthicsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Is the Use of Thought Experiments?Part I. Problems1. Emergencies2. The Child Who Is Drowning in a Pond3. A Transplant Gone Mad4. Confronting a Furious Crowd5. The Killer Trolley6. Incest in All Innocence7. The Amoralist8. The Experience Machine9. Is a Short and Mediocre Life Preferable to No Life at All?10. I Would Have Preferred Never to Have Been Born11. Must We Eliminate Animals in Order to Liberate Them?12. The Utility Monster13. A Violinist Has Been Plugged Into Your Back14. Frankenstein, Minister of Health15. Who Am I Without My Organs?16. And If Sexuality Were Free?17. It Is Harder to Do Good Intentionally Than It Is to Do Evil18. We Are Free, Even If Everything Is Written in Advance19. Monsters and SaintsPart II. The Ingredients of the Moral "Cuisine"20. Intuitions and Rules21. A Little Method!22. What Remains of Our Moral Intuitions?23. Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone?24. A Philosopher Aware of the Limits of His Moral Intuitions Is Worth Two Others, Indeed More25. Understand the Elementary Rules of Moral Reasoning26. Dare to Criticize the Elementary Rules of Moral ArgumentConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex

Ruwen Ogien holds doctorates in both philosophy and social anthropology. He is a director of research in moral philosophy at the CNRS and sits on the editorial board of the review Raison Publique. His most recent works include Le corps et l'argent and La vie, la mort, l'etat: le débat bioéthique