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How should we decide what to do?

  • Written by Lori Gruen, William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
How many times do we wonder, 'what's the right thing to do'?Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA (Helping the homeless Uploaded by Gary Dee, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Most of us are faced with ethical decisions on a regular basis. Some are relatively minor – perhaps your cousin makes a new recipe and it really doesn’t taste good,...

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