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The Moral Ceiling

Civilizations Decline When Power Outruns Justification

A figure stands on a ridge under a stone slab, looking over a river city at dusk.

Civilizations decline when power outruns justification. Fourteen chapters, from the difference between a moral rule and a preference to the problem of new kinds of agents.

Contents

  1. Front matterAbout This Book
  2. Chapter 1Why Moral Rules Are Different from Preferences
  3. Chapter 2The View from the Other Side
  4. Chapter 3The Principle That Taxes the Powerful
  5. Chapter 4Subjects, Not Objects
  6. Chapter 5The Return of the Agent
  7. Chapter 6The Limits of Obedience
  8. Chapter 7Institutions That Outrun Their Reasons
  9. Chapter 8The Relocation of Agency
  10. Chapter 9Alignment Inversion
  11. Chapter 10Approaching the Ceiling
  12. Chapter 11The Available Futures
  13. Chapter 12Raising the Ceiling
  14. Chapter 13The New Recognition Problem
  15. Chapter 14Power over New Kinds of Agents
  16. ConclusionConclusion