amoralist

One is the judge, an urbane amoralist like Jones in Conrad's novel, who is to preside over the registration of indigenous people to vote in a forthcoming election.

The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review 2011

What an amoralist expresses when she makes a moral claim that she is disinclined to honor involves using the moral predicate in an “inverted commas sense” ” a sense which alludes to the value judgments of others without itself expressing such a judgment (Hare 1952, 145 “ 6).

Boys in White Suits 2009

Other responses to the amoralist are available consistent with non-cognitivism.

Boys in White Suits 2009

I could be an atheist and an amoralist, but I still calculate that doing business with a churchgoer is to my advantage.

Trust Cues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgment require the motivation not present in the amoralist.

Boys in White Suits 2009

More complex versions of non-cognitivism can make the connection with actual motivation looser and thereby withstand the amoralist challenge.

Boys in White Suits 2009

One longstanding objection to the theory is that it has no way of motivating the amoralist to adhere to the demands of morality.

Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

But we can assume that the amoralist is at least prudentially rational.

Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

Ah, the sledgehammer irony of the truly depraved wingnut amoralist.

Me and Bella. Ann Althouse 2008

The sort of self-interested challenge that Mill identifies at the beginning (III 1) is usually part of an amoralist challenge to the authority of other-regarding morality.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007