On Shermer on morality

This is my critical commentary on Michael Shermer's paper “Morality is real, objective, and natural.” Shermer and I agree that morality is both real and objective. Here I raise serious reservations about both Shermer's account of where morality comes from and his account of what morality t...

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Published inAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1384; no. 1; pp. 63 - 68
Main Author Miller, Christian B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2016
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects
aggression
desire
Ethical Theory
ethics
evolutionary ethics
human nature
Humans
Michael Shermer
Milgram
Morality
Morals
obedience
Social Justice - psychology
Social Justice - trends
obedience
desire
evolutionary ethics
human nature
morality
Milgram
Michael Shermer
aggression
ethics
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Summary:This is my critical commentary on Michael Shermer's paper “Morality is real, objective, and natural.” Shermer and I agree that morality is both real and objective. Here I raise serious reservations about both Shermer's account of where morality comes from and his account of what morality tells us to do. His approach to the foundations of morality would allow some very disturbing behaviors to count as moral, and his approach to what morality says does not provide the action guidance we need from a moral theory.
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Templeton Religion Trust
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ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1111/nyas.13076