How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time : Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I - The Problem: We Need to Make Decisions, But We Don't Know How -- 1 Five Challenges to the Formula of Right and Wrong -- 2 Desperately Seeking a System -- 3 Unreliable Advice from Religion and Dice -- 4 The Enlightenment Decision-Making Machine: Do Whatever Is Best . . . -- 5 . . . Does Not Seem Best -- 6 Can We Fix It? The Pieces of the Puzzle -- Part II - The Proof: Finding the Basis of Right and Wrong -- 7 The Meaning of Life -- 8 A Plan for Robinson Crusoe -- 9 Answering an 8-Year-Old Who Incessantly Asks 'Why?' -- 10 I Say This, You Say That - Can We Ever Know Who's Right? -- 11 Applying the Sherlock Holmes Method -- 12 How to Become a Better Person (and Answer Aristotle) -- 13 The Help Principle -- 14 The DNA of Right and Wrong -- Part III - The Principle: Refining the Help Principle -- 15 Putting the DNA in a Petri Dish -- 16 Using Your Watch to Tell Right from Wrong -- 17 Letting People Choose for Themselves -- 18 Torturers and Charitable Show-Offs -- 19 Revenge, Reciprocity and Received Wisdom -- 20 What if You Didn't Mean to Do It? -- 21 The New Ladder to Humility -- 22 The First Nine Principles of Right and Wrong -- Part IV - The Programme: Extending the Principles to Other Problems -- 23 The Myth of Blame -- 24 Punishment, Mercy and Remorse -- 25 Something Funny about Promises -- 26 A Credible Rule on Lying and the Richard Nixon Problem -- 27 Rules for Romance and Sex -- 28 How to Choose in Small Groups -- 29 How to Choose in Large Groups -- 30 The System for Making Decisions -- 31 The Riddle Answered? -- Part V - Practical Advice: For Real People in the Modern World -- 32 So Why Aren't People Good, Then? -- 33 Why People Hate Lawyers -- 34 When It's Best to Be Bad -- 35 The Live Aid Problem: Does Charity Begin at Home?.

36 The Mother Teresa Quandary: Can You Be Good without Giving Everything Away? -- 37 The Man on the Morning Train -- 38 How to Lead a Good Life in a Rough World -- Part VI - The Prognosis: How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time -- 39 Newton's Limits -- 40 What to Do and Why -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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