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    Justifying moral beliefs by permitting ourselves to belie... — Carmelics
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    Justifying moral beliefs by permitting ourselves to believe what we have been raised to believe is methodologically questionable

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    • 1.Moral skepticism generates genuine, practical doubt rather than merely theoretical doubt
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    • 2.The need for moral justification is more pressing than the need for justification of everyday empirical beliefs
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    • 3.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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    • 1.All epistemic justification must begin somewhere, and no agent possesses a view from nowhere free of prior commitments (Neurath's boat).
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    • 2.The demand for justification independent of socialized belief applies equally to logic and perception, yet we do not call these methodologically suspect.
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    • 3.Requiring moral beliefs to meet a standard no beliefs can meet conflates a genuine methodological concern with an impossibly high skeptical bar.
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    • 1.Gadamer's hermeneutic tradition establishes that tradition-embedded prejudgments are not distortions but necessary conditions for understanding anything at all.
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    • 2.Moral formation through upbringing provides the very conceptual vocabulary without which critical moral reflection would be unintelligible, not merely convenient.
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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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