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A review by harvio
Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah
4.0
- distinguished Princeton University Professor Kwame Appiah contrasts "virtue ethics" with "situational/contextual ethics"
- the experiments include: how you are much more likely to be courteously helped by someone emerging from a phone both if that person has just found abandoned money in the coin return slot; how you are more likely to get change for a dollar in front of a fragrant bakery than in front of a dry-goods store, etc.
- although it is almost always attributed to a rock-solid character trait, one is generally more virtuous when one is feeling good otherwise
- the experiments include: how you are much more likely to be courteously helped by someone emerging from a phone both if that person has just found abandoned money in the coin return slot; how you are more likely to get change for a dollar in front of a fragrant bakery than in front of a dry-goods store, etc.
- although it is almost always attributed to a rock-solid character trait, one is generally more virtuous when one is feeling good otherwise