Learning from evil -- Just the bad and the ugly -- Culture and moral evaluation -- Do the ends justify the means? -- The feeling of morality -- Moral evasion -- The moral of Mr. Jefferson's story.
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Slave-holders, Nazis, and psychopaths are indisputably bad people. But the ways in which they attempt to justify their actions provide uncomfortable parallels with our own moral deliberations. Moral philosophy provides tools for examining and evaluating our moral deliberations, and so serve an important function in moral education.