But this worry about potential conflicts between the agent's own interests and utilitarian moral demands seems to arise for any conception of morality that recognizes other-regarding moral demands.
They would each entail that moral demands are fundamentally arbitrary in a way that is incompatible with morality's claim to authority.
Clear moral demands were replaced by horsetrading.
Why should we care about complying with moral demands?
Such theories, however, face difficult questions as to where the motivation to comply with such moral demands comes from and how those moral demands might be implemented in a democratic process in which future generations themselves have no voice.
It seem that it could provide guidelines whilst avoiding tough moral demands and threats of eternal punishment.
Women's rights, civil rights, human rights -- in the 20th century Western society steadily expanded the moral demands on itself.
The latter does not make the exorbitant moral demands of traditional religions, which impose bad conscience, guilt, sin, sexual inhibition and the rest.
Institutions tend to be strongest when they make significant moral demands, and weaker when they pre-emptively accommodate themselves to human nature.
But he also knew and offered an alternative to tragedy: his people's survival depended on their acceptance again of the ancient moral demands.
It centres upon peace and reconciliation, upon the moral demands laid upon each worshipper, underscoring the need for worship that issues in the service of fellowmen caught up in the evil of warfare.
