What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.