Railton ultimately regards morality as something

a. that can be examined and refined and ultimately justified through rational critique.
b. merely arbitrary, and something we are better off rejecting.
c. ultimately arbitrary and unjustifiable, but something we cannot live without.
d. that will always reflect the interests of the strongest element of society.
e. that is a natural evolutionary development, and cannot be subjected to rational
evaluation.


a

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