She begins with a preliminary account of Plato's response to immoralism in the first two books of the Republic. |
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For many, his teaching adopts the stance of immoralism or, at least, amoralism. |
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Brecht shocked Elias Canetti by bragging that he wrote for money, and this portrait seems to express something of his youthful immoralism. |
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In direct contrast, some of Machiavelli's readers have found no taint of immoralism in his thought whatsoever. |
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If constitutive norms cannot be violated, constitutivism implausibly implies that only perfect agents can exist, and thus immoralism and irrationality are impossible. |
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But the ancients did have to answer various forms of relativism, immoralism, and skepticism, contending with rival philosophical schools which disagreed profoundly with one another. |
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At the same time his idealization of the 'real ruler' suggests that this is an unstable and incomplete position, liable to progress to a Calliclean 'heroic' form of immoralism. |
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