brutish

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You’ll certainly learn much, or be reminded of much, reading “Nasty, Brutish, and Short”: the famous “Trolley Problem” introduced by Philippa Foot, the “hard problem of consciousness” outlined by David Chalmers.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

Indeed, “why” tolls like a bell throughout “Nasty, Brutish, and Short.”

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

For a more recent discussion of this issue, see an article posted on this site last week, “Nasty, Brutish and Short: Are Humans DNA-Wired to Kill?”

From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2017

Brutish is the clear blue eye, with the burning excited brain revealing itself in flashes such as one might see in the eye of a rhinoceros on the attack.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise

"Brutish thinking if it's represented in your screaming headlines."

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins