Two (Faulty) Responses to the Challenge of Amoralism

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 44:248-253 (1998)
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To the question "Why should I be moral?" there is a simple answer that some philosophers find tempting. There is also a response, common enough to be dubbed the standard response, to the simple answer. In what follows, I show that the SA and SR are unsatisfactory; they share a serious defect.

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John J. Tilley
Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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