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What justifies morality, what justifies its justification?

The initial mistake is to think that there could be something which justifies morality, where justification is assumed to be independent. But this doesn’t get us any further along if the reason for trying to justify it to start with was that some people don’t want to take any notice of it. 

This is guilt commodification, the indulgence-sale launched when the Invisible Hand turns to pleasuring the spiritual organ Today’s aimless moralism offers a worse yesterday, and this faute de mieux, a better tomorrow being out of bounds. What sets out as critique may become commodity fetishism, symptom rather than diagnosis.


Our moral philosophers are still stalked by a truant deity.


The error is compounded by assuming that the issue of justification has to do with supplying a motive for acting morally, whether that is effected by an appeal to our supposed interest in doing so or, less aspiringly, by a suit paid to collective or individual prudence


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