Abstract

This chapter offers a set of prompts designed to probe our understanding and use of the skills described in chapters 2 and 3. These prompts are grouped under 8 headings: curiosity about the contours and adequacy of one’s own moral sensibilities; a broad empathy; conceptual agility to see moral questions from multiple perspectives; identifying emotional registers; sensitivity to suffering; moral certainty/uncertainty; moral authority; and happiness. Multiple prompts under each heading seek to get at the same capacity in a different way. Readers are encouraged to respond to these prompts orally first and then in writing. The exercises are designed for use in pairs or with three people, with each person taking a turn as responder to the prompt and then as a careful listener who voices a follow-up.