… Ignorance about political related issues has long been considered a threat to democracy…
political ignorance, focusing especially on Ilya Somin’s book Democracy and Political Ignorance …

… As I said, we have a strong intuition that some of the agents in … the lines of our general moral
and political views about justice, … The original intuition was not about what society should do, …

… intuition further. One thing that is difficult to determine is whether my differing intuition is really
an intuition … Politics, and arguing that most of our evidence for the view that slavery was not …

… There is no doubt something compelling in the intuition at the core of this argument, that it is
… have promoted circumstantial and moral ignorance and influenced political decision making, …

… the debate over political ignorance. Unfortunately, empirical scholars of political ignorance
have … This intuition is confirmed by studies showing that people tend to use new information to …

… ignorance should first be distinguished from what I will call “acquisitional ignorance,” the
act of maintaining one’s ignorance … Is there a way to move beyond intuitions and identify the …

… and political obstacles to intervention. We therefore recognize that geopolitics, domestic politics,
… Ignorance is not the only ally of indifference; sometimes knowledge, too, blunts the heart …

… This example suggests a way in which we can make sense of our seemingly conflicting
intuitions about moral ignorance. We could regard the person who acts on the best available …

… who work within moral and political contexts distinct from … sketched below, our moral ignorance
about African thinking has a … familiar moral values and attendant political principles. While …

… on beliefs or intuition to determine the moral appropriateness of an action, one should
instead employ reason. Specifically, Bentham proposed that a morally permissible action is one …