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From Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics, by Simon Blackburn

SUPPOSE

"Suppose by bad luck you just happen to be in my dungeon?"

From Chapter Nine, Death

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From Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, by Peter Singer

A VIEW

"There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying.  To the contrary, I suspect that whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly either."

From the Introduction.