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95 - The Psychology of the Moral Circle

Philosophical Disquisitions

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The Moral Circle

The idea of a moral circle was popularized most by peter singer, although the concept was there before him. There's this notion that there are these kind of concentric rings within this moral circle that kind of expand outward from ourselves. We first and foremost care about others that are most like us or that are most relationally tiveto us. And then we start moving outward from there. The next concentric rung might be people in our neighborhood or our in group members. Then we we keep moving outward and get to entities and objects that are more and more dissimilar, or more and more distant from ourselves.

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