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Article: Moral internalism and the brain.(Critical essay)
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- Social Theory and Practice
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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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 ...