Inside Ethics2016
On the Demands of Moral Thought
by Alice Crary
Alice Crary's Inside Ethics is a transformative account of moral thought about human being and animals. We have come to think of human beings and animals as elements of a morally indifferent reality that reveals itself only to neutral or science-based methods. This little-commented-on trend, which shapes the work of moral philosophers and popular ethical writers alike, has pernicious effects, distorting our understanding of the difficulty of moral thinking. Inside Ethics traces the roots of existing views to tendencies in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Crary underlines the moral urgency of revisiting our approach in ethics so that instead of assuming we confront a world that itself places no demands on moral imagination, we treat the exercise of moral imagination as necessary...