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MORAL FEELINGS MORAL REALITY AND MORAL PROGRESS...

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: Gut Feelings and Moral
Knowledge  discusses the value of intuitions in understanding human rights and argues against
subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality of the kind offered by evolutionary
psychology or based on brain scans. The second essay  Moral Reality and Moral Progress 
proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth  according to which it does
not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on
reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply  and such accessibility
depends on historical developments. The result is that only some advances in moral knowledge
are discoveries of what has been true all along.

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