{"product_id":"why-its-ok-to-be-amoral-9781032232836","title":"Why Its OK to Be Amoral","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Itâs OK to Be Amoral\u003c\/i\u003e argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded moral convictions invoke the authority of sacred moral truths, but there are no such truths. In reality, moral passions are rooted in atavistic emotional dispositions and arbitrary social conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile public and private discourse is saturated with guilt, shame and righteous indignation, professional philosophers, under cover of clever argumentation, promote the utopian idea that all practical questions have uniquely right answersâproviding that you adopt the right moral principles. But their justifications for those principles appeal to contested âfoundationsâ, among which no rational adjudication is possible. Moreover, because there are two discrepant ways of understanding motivation, our access to agentsâ true reasons is never sufficiently reliable to warrant moral praise or blame. Finally, every agent has a wide div\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018915676503,"sku":"9781032232836","price":21.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-its-ok-to-be-amoral-9781032232836","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}