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“Why should I be moral? This is not … a misguided request for a demonstration that morality is in our interest (although that may be one answer to the question). It is a call for philosophy, the examination of life. . . .

“Why should I be moral? This is not … a misguided request for a demonstration that morality is in our interest (although that may be one answer to the question). It is a call for philosophy, the examination of life. Even those who are convinced that “it is right” must be in itself a sufficient reason for action may request an account of rightness which this conviction will survive.”

Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity

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