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The new 10 commandments | Massimo Pigliucci, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sophie Grace Chapel

Philosophy For Our Times

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How to Define Harm When You Say Do No Harm

Can life be reduced to a rule book? You have all of three minutes. Simon Tisdall: I'm broadly in agreement with both Sophie Grace and Massimo. Maybe one slight disagreement is that you could reduce morality down to one rule, which is the rule of do no harm. But it really comes down to how are you going to define harm when you say do no harm? Probably we need a different approach, which I've worked on in my own work, which is about empathy. So I would always like to see a rule based approach combined with a kind of compassion based or empathy based approach.

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