First Things RSS Feed - Peter Wicks https://www.firstthings.com/author/peter-wicks en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:51 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/peter-wicks 60 Mechanical Morals https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/05/mechanical-morals https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/05/mechanical-morals Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400
Joshua Greene’s Moral Tribes is a book about the origins of our moral disagreements and how to overcome them. Greene, who directs the Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University, presents the reader with an accessible account of recent work on the psychology of moral judgment. This research, he argues, not only explains our deepest moral disputes, but also reveals a rational standard that we can use to resolve them. In a culture that is both painfully riven by moral disagreement and greatly impressed by the achievements of science, this is an enticing proposition.

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]]> Utility’s Deceptions https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/01/utilitys-deceptions https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/01/utilitys-deceptions Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Peter Singer and Christian Ethics:
Beyond Polarization
by charles c. camosy
cambridge, 284 pages, $29.99

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]]> From the January First Things: ‘Utility’s Deceptions’ https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/12/article201212utilitys-deceptions https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/12/article201212utilitys-deceptions Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:22:00 -0500 Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization
by Charles C. Camosy
Cambridge, 284 pages, $29.99

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