(Download) "Dismissive Replies to "Why Should I Be Moral?" (Essay)" by Social Theory and Practice " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Dismissive Replies to "Why Should I Be Moral?" (Essay)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 248 KB
Description
1. Replies to "Why should I be moral?" are generally of two kinds: those that purport to answer the question and those that dismiss it as spurious. Those of the first kind aim not to discredit the question but to show that everyone, including the why-be-moral skeptic, is required by reason to be moral. Either that or they aim, more modestly, at showing that most people, though perhaps not the skeptic, have good or decisive reasons to live morally. I find these replies unsatisfying when they are modest and unconvincing when they are not; (1) so it is with interest that I examine the second, dismissive, kind of reply. (2)