How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.
Torbjorn TannsjoI am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.
Torbjorn TannsjoThe possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.
Torbjorn TannsjoIt is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
Torbjorn Tannsjo