In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse
is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is
a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which,
upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues
that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with
a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not
contain, and demands that it does not make. Should we therefore do
away with morality, as we did away with other faulty notions such
as witches? Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality
as a 'useful fiction' - allowing it to have a regulative influence
on our lives and decisions, perhaps even playing a central role -
while not committing ourselves to believing or asserting
falsehoods, and thus not being subject to accusations of 'error'.
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