TY - JOUR
T1 - Can One Justify Morality To Fooles?
AU - DeBruin, Debra A.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - A note of urgency can sometimes be heard, even in otherwise unhurried writers, when they ask for a justification of morality. Unless the ethical life, or (more narrowly) morality, can be justified by philosophy, we shall be open to relativism, amoralism, and disorder. As they often put it: when an amoralist calls ethical considerations in doubt, and suggests that there is no reason to follow the requirements of morality, what can we say to him?.
AB - A note of urgency can sometimes be heard, even in otherwise unhurried writers, when they ask for a justification of morality. Unless the ethical life, or (more narrowly) morality, can be justified by philosophy, we shall be open to relativism, amoralism, and disorder. As they often put it: when an amoralist calls ethical considerations in doubt, and suggests that there is no reason to follow the requirements of morality, what can we say to him?.
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U2 - 10.1080/00455091.1995.10717402
DO - 10.1080/00455091.1995.10717402
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963159873
SN - 0045-5091
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 31
JO - Canadian Journal of Philosophy
JF - Canadian Journal of Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -