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Why It's OK to Be Amoral
1032232838 rar Why Its OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded moral convictions invoke the authority of sacred moral truths, but there are no such truths. In reality, moral passions are rooted in atavistic emotional dispositions and arbitrary social conventions. While public and private discourse is saturated with guilt, shame and righteous indignation, professional philosophers, under cover of clever argumentation, promote the utopian idea that all practical questions have uniquely right answersproviding that you adopt the right moral principles. But their justifications for those principles appeal to contested foundations, among which no rational adjudication is possible. Moreover, because there are two discrepant ways of understanding motivation, our access to agents true reasons is never sufficiently reliable to warrant moral praise or blame. Finally, every agent has a wide diversity of reasons for action, yet moralists claim that some reasons trump all others, because they are moral reasons. Since these too must be grounded in facts, that amounts to double counting some reasons. Read more