How should we respond to moral theories that put excessive demands on individual agents? Intramoral strategies concern the content of morality and set limits on how exacting moral demands may be. Extramoral strategies concern the normative status of morality and set limits on how significant moral demands may be. While both strategies are often discussed separately, I focus on a specific aspect of how they relate to each other: Do intramoral approaches assume that extramoral approaches fail, and if so, does that render them implausible? This challenge becomes apparent when the two strategies are considered together, and my goal is to show how it can be dealt with. In particular, I argue that intramoral strategies do not depend on the failure of extramoral strategies: Even if morality has limited practical significance (which I also doubt), moral theories can be criticised for being too demanding in terms of content.

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限制道德要求的两种方式

我们应该如何应对对个人提出过高要求的道德理论？道德内策略关注道德的内容，并对道德要求的严格程度设定限制。道德之外的策略关注道德的规范地位，并对道德要求的重要性设定限制。虽然这两种策略经常被单独讨论，但我关注它们如何相互关联的一个特定方面：道德内方法是否假设道德外方法失败，如果是这样，这是否会使它们变得难以置信？当同时考虑这两种策略时，这一挑战就变得显而易见，我的目标是展示如何应对它。特别是，我认为道德内策略并不取决于道德外策略的失败：即使道德的实际意义有限（我也对此表示怀疑），道德理论也可能因内容要求过高而受到批评。