Why it-s OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. It offers readers a vigorous and entertaining polemic against both the popular tendency to moralise and philosophers- attempts to justify morality''s supposed -laws- and -commands.- High-minded moral convictions invoke the authority of sacred moral truths; but there are no such truths. In reality, moral passions are rooted in atavistic emotional dispositions and arbitrary social conventions.
While public and private discourse is saturated with guilt, shame, and righteous indignation, professional philosophers, under cover of clever argumentation, promote the utopian idea that all practical questions have uniquely right answers-providing that you adopt the right moral principles. But their justifications for those principles appeal to contested -foundations,- among which no rational adjudication is possible. Moreover, because there are t
