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    Supports→Justifying moral beliefs by permitting ourselves to believe what we have been raised to believe is methodologically questionable

    Bootstrapping moral beliefs from socialized moral beliefs is circular in a way that matters when the legitimacy of those very beliefs is in question

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    Can this kind of answer to the circularity charge be extended to naturalized moral epistemology? Can we offer the moral skeptic the same kind of reply? It may be that we cannot, since the two cases appear to be importantly different. While we may consider global skepticism an interesting theoretical challenge, few of us feel the need to address it before getting on with our lives. We may be content to follow the advice that we assume that we already know many things and then (if we are so inclin

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