Eric Campbell has argued that we should abolish moral discourse on the grounds that making moral judgments leads to “potentially severe practical pathologies,” including hypocrisy and self-delusion. However, his account of moral judgments only plausibly describes rule-following or deontological judgments. Thus, his argument only supports a partial abolition of moral discourse. This view is certainly interesting, but it is not as extreme as wholesale moral abolitionism. Moreover, I argue that Campbell’s account, when reconstructed as an argument for deontological abolitionism, can play only a very limited dialectical role.

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病理说教：道德判断是一种承诺手段吗？

埃里克·坎贝尔 (Eric Campbell) 认为，我们应该废除道德话语，理由是做出道德判断会导致“潜在的严重的实际病态”，包括虚伪和自欺欺人。然而，他对道德判断的描述只是合理地描述了遵循规则或义务论的判断。因此，他的论点只支持部分废除道德话语。这种观点固然有趣，但并不像完全道德废止主义那样极端。此外，我认为坎贝尔的叙述，当被重构为道义废止论的论证时，只能发挥非常有限的辩证作用。