# Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

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- Authors: [Thomas Nagel](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-nagel)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9769-088-8
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2023-12-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: “Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge,” discusses the value of intuitions in understanding human rights and argues against subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality of the kind offered by evolutionary psychology or based on brain scans. The second essay, “Moral Reality and Moral