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| | 20th WCP: Two (Faulty) Responses to the Challenge of Amoralism |
 | | In other words, Alf is well aware that he has moral reasons to be moral, and that morality cannot be justified by appealing to prudence, law, and so on. |
 | | When Alf asks "Why should I be moral?" he is rationally deliberating about what to do, and we can meet his request only by giving him something that can enter into his deliberations and influence him, insofar as he is rational, to do one thing rather than another. |
 | | To say that Alf has reasons to do M, in the second sense of "reasons," and to assume that such reasons are tied to rational requirements, is to assume (in a roundabout way) the very thing Alf questions: that moral considerations furnish him with rational requirements to behave morally. |
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