But today the
amoralism of the trading floor governs corporate decision-making.
Wiredu, therefore, criticizes what he calls "ambiguous
amoralism" in Marxism, insisting that "it has led to some of the most unattractive features of communist and pro-communist tactics" (PAC, p.
This strategy is known as the "challenge of
amoralism." Against this strategy, the author argues that in order to represent a genuine case of
amoralism, and a credible counterexample to unconditional motivational internalism, an agent would have to satisfy simultaneously an epistemically inconsistent set of conditions.
How, notably, can we avoid slipping into some sort of Nietzschean relativism or
amoralism in international affairs?
"Moral Rationalism and Rational
Amoralism." Ethics 120, no.
supposed utilitarian benefits of late-nineteenth-century
amoralism,
George Orwell tambien critico estos versos en su ensayo Inside the Whale: "Mr Auden's brand of
amoralism is only possible, if you are the kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled" (238).
At the time, the deputy called Christofides "the rector of illegal practice, lawlessness,
amoralism, nepotism and having things done because that's what he wants."
The writer and activist French priest Felicite de Lammenais (1782-1854), who influenced Cabet, drew upon an early version of the "social gospel" and a long history of collectivist Catholic confraternities to argue against what he considered the
amoralism of capitalism and to advocate a return to what would later be called a "moral economy." (8) There was concern at the top of the hierarchy, too.
Consequently, Aquinas' theodictic argument that an apparent absence of a conscience is a failure in moral reasoning is not to be dismissed out of hand, but should be supplemented with an awareness of
amoralism's emotional emptiness, thus correcting medieval philosophy's blind spot about the psychopath that Timothy C.
How telling that even a thinker as committed to moral universality as Frohnen should be prone to a kind of partial
amoralism or immoralism!
Finally, while all of this may sound like a recipe for a kind of Machiavellian
amoralism, Rand argues, at least on the interpretation that I will be presupposing here, that the result of this kind of approach is the endorsement of a set of largely, though not entirely, familiar and traditional moral virtues.
