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Moral psychology: The depths of disgust
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- Dan Jones is a freelance writer in Brighton, UK.
Abstract
Is there wisdom to be found in repugnance? Or is disgust 'the nastiest of all emotions', offering nothing but support to prejudice? Dan Jones looks at the repellant side of human nature.
In 1997, Dolly the sheep unleashed bioethical responses of every conceivable flavour, from the ruminatively utilitarian to the emotionally outraged. Leon Kass, a bioethicist at the University of Chicago, Illinois, who chaired President Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005, combined scholarly and visceral responses in a much cited essay entitled 'The Wisdom of Repugnance'.
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