Abstract

Some philosophers hope to answer normative moral skepticism by appeal to a moralized account of attributive human goodness. They give accounts of good and bad human beings, maintain that to be a good human being one must be moral, and then argue that human beings should be moral because otherwise they will be defective or less than ideal members of their kind. This article focuses on Yong Huang's Confucian, Zhu Xi inspired, version of this argument. I develop Daoist inspired skeptical arguments which challenge his claims that to be a good human being one must be moral and that human beings should aim to be good members of their kind.