Of course, other contemporary secular moral philosophers have, with great ingenuity, developed moral philosophies that attempt to save the appearances of moral philosophy. In this brief book I cannot give a full account of these views and how they fail, but I will try to summarize some possibilities and sketch the problems they confront.11 Some argue that morality is the product of evolution, claiming that creatures with moral instincts have survival advantages over those that do not. Such a view
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