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In assessing a position like Hare's, Williams and other critics often begin with the formidable difficulties involved in the project of deducing anything much about the structure of morality from the logic of moral language: see e.g., Geach, "Good and Evil", Analysis 1956, and Williams 1972 52 611972 52 61
It attempts to derive the content of morality (and, in some versions, also the justification for holding that we are obligated to follow morality) from the notion of an agreement between all those in the moral domain.
"The old guard still has a very different notion of morality from the younger generation," Professor Zhan said.
We do not, despite the smug assurances of many believers, ultimately get our morality from the Good Book.
Paradoxically, Americans have a specific distaste for the theological doctrine that has informed our national morality from the beginning: Puritanism.
"To put the reasonably held beliefs of Christians into such a category is alarming and in effect seeks to rule out Christian principles of morality from the public square.
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They did not distinguish between moral oughts and prudential or rational ones, holding that there is only the single, moral ought; this is why for them egoism was a moral view, not a challenge to morality from outside the moral realm.
Kant's lectures on ethics address such wide-ranging issues of morality and religion as Kant's moral criticisms of atheism, the independence of morality from religion, the corrupting influence of counterfeit religious service on morality, and the absence of special duties to God.
But it is also possible to adopt a position of denying the possibility of moral luck while at the same time showing that the Control Principle, while true, prevents morality from playing the central role we might have hoped for it.
Some of Kant's views that seem to agree with, if not reflect, Hume's include the following: the independence of morality from religion and the importance of keeping the two distinct; concern about the corrupting influence of false religion, including fanaticism and superstition; and an interest in undermining traditional arguments for the existence of God.
Because without compassion and morality from at least the majority of American citizens, the teeter-totter effect will continue, and sometimes the people who are least equipped to weather it will get tossed into the air by the heavyweights at the other end of the board, with no kind of landing in sight.
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