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- Title: Moral Internalism and the Brain (Critical Essay)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 232 KB
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I. Introduction It is a commonsense observation that people who judge that they ought not to act in a certain way tend to refrain from acting so, or at least act with some degree of reluctance and feel guilty about doing so. Consequently, it is at least initially plausible that if a person appears to judge one way yet acts otherwise without any kind of inner motivational conflict or weakness of the will, we should refuse to attribute a genuine judgment to her in the first place. If a person claims to believe that eating meat is morally wrong but goes on merrily munching a hamburger whenever she gets the chance, we may well doubt her sincerity, or at least resoluteness. Moreover, the reason why we invest so much in arguing and persuading each other of moral views appears to be precisely that they make a difference to actions and attitudes when sincerely embraced. For example, it is common sense that the vegetarian is not yet satisfied when her friend avows that he will stop eating meat--only when he actually stops or at least puts up a genuine fight with temptation and suffers some form of guilt, will she credit him with genuinely coming around to her side in the moral debate. In short, as many have noted, morality seems to be essentially practical, intimately related to action.