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Ethics

The debate continues…

by Peter Lloyd and Innes Crellin

Professor Crellin (Philosophy Now No.15) is right to say “… authenticity, and not moral judgment, … reveals to us the full horror of an Auschwitz … Moral philosophy or religious dogma is no substitute for this.” Nevertheless…

(a) ‘Authenticity’ is not enough. It cannot handle moral dilemmas because it has no apparatus for weighing up and resolving conflicting moral intuitions.

‘Authenticity’ reveals not only the “horror of an Auschwitz” but also the horror of the Allies’ war against the Nazis.

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