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    Without independent reason to reject autonomous moral ref... — Carmelics
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    Supports→We have little reason to dismiss the possibility of autonomous moral reflection.

    Without independent reason to reject autonomous moral reflection, treating moral reflection as wholly unreliable is unwarranted.

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    The debunking argument would be strengthened if we had good reason to be skeptical about autonomous moral reflection. In this vein, Street claims that whatever moral reflection and reasoning we engage in is limited merely to assessing “thoroughly contaminated” evaluative beliefs using “tools of rational reflection [that are] equally contaminated” (Street 2006: 124). The problem, however, is that this claim is based upon the very premise in question: the tools of reflection are allegedly thorough

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