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    It is not the case that Justifying moral beliefs by permitting ourselves to believe what we have been raised to believe is methodologically questionable

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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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    • 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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