Would You Kill the Fat Man? by David Edmonds (Chinese)

The Trolley Problem: Challenge Your Moral Intuition and Break Your Idea of Right and Wrong!

A stalled train is about to hit five people on the tracks, leaving them with no time to escape. You're standing on an overpass, witnessing the entire situation. A fat man stands nearby, pushing him off, and you could stop the train and save five innocent lives. One or five, which will you choose? Is sacrificing the few for the sake of the many truly right? To save central London, Churchill induced the Germans to continue bombing the working-class suburbs. A shipwrecked captain murdered his waiter, forcing four people to devour him in a desperate attempt to survive. To save a kidnapped child, a police officer tortured a suspect to extract information about his whereabouts... Where do we draw the line between good and evil? Should morality be guided by reason or by instinct? In-depth discussions on issues such as the legalization of same-sex marriage, labor rights, gender equality, and distributive justice require more than just intuition. Learning to think like a philosopher challenges your moral intuition and shatters your preconceived notions of right and wrong. Best-selling popular philosophy author Edmonds uses accessible approaches from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and even brain science to delve into the trolley problem, one of the ten most famous thought experiments in history. Choice magazine won the PROSE award for outstanding scholarly publication in 2014. Moral philosophy is the philosophy we encounter most often in our daily lives. From small acts of deception and lying to major acts of murder and arson, we constantly use our inner yardstick to judge ourselves and others. However, that yardstick is not always consistent and can even contradict itself. Moral philosophers have painstakingly sought to understand the precise form of this yardstick.