以下、The Guardianの同性愛婚についての記事より。
It was the hope of some Enlightenment figures, such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill's father, James, that fact-based calculation could do away with the need to respond to an emotional sense of right and wrong. But modern neuroscience as well as behavioural economics, social and evolutionary psychology have shown that it was an Enlightenment philosopher – David Hume – who was right in believing that emotions are the seat of reason.
If society seems ever more tolerant why are we also a nation of ranters?
なんか最近ようやく自分で辿り着いた結論が、普通に新聞記事で書かれている気がするな…。まあ、ラッセルも40代になってからこの洞察を得たようだし、よしとしよう。
