Tricky Intuitions

Piotr Lichacz

doi:10.18290/rf2202.13

Piotr Lichacz Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-6956

Keywords: ethics, moral theories, moral intuitions, human values

Abstract

This article is a critical discussion of the book Setting Health-Care Priorities by Torbjörn Tännsjö. This critique targets mainly Tännsjö’s method, but also several unjustified conclusions and some implicit assumptions.

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