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Morality sometimes asks us to do what is easy and enjoyable, such as supporting a local charity or spending time with family. At other times, it calls on us to adjust our lives in ways that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. It could require something as small as making a minor apology, or something as dramatic as risking one’s life. When reflecting on such possibilities, it’s natural to pose the following question: Why act as morality directs, even if you face competing demands or haven’t pledged allegiance to morality in the first place?
Aiming to address this question, this Part transitions from inquiry into morality’s objectivity to that of its authority. We thereby continue our efforts to make good on realism’s animating idea that morality is objectively authoritative.
We took a first step in this direction by endorsing (in Chapter 2, §1) the realist thesis
Strength: Moral demands and reasons are strong, at least in a wide range of cases.
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