But we can assume that the amoralist is at least prudentially rational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference

Externalists maintain that the amoralist is not a conceptual impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Motivation] Reference

Other responses to the amoralist are available consistent with non-cognitivism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys in White Suits] Reference

I could be an atheist and an amoralist, but I still calculate that doing business with a churchgoer is to my advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust Cues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

One longstanding objection to the theory is that it has no way of motivating the amoralist to adhere to the demands of morality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys in White Suits] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys in White Suits] Reference

This willingness to universalize is precisely what makes him a fanatic rather than an amoralist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy, et cetera] Reference

A committed amoralist who lives to sell, Redge goes back a long way with Brent and still misses their partnership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Clinton in his own political career may not have been as "idealistic" about it as was Kennedy, but then an amoralist is not particular about the brand of collectivism he adopts, so long as he is seen promoting it and stands to gain something from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rule of Reason] Reference

Esau believes that individual happiness is all that matters, and that civilization is hypocrisy (at worst he's an amoralist); Jacob believes that collective happiness is primary, even if individuals suffer as a result (like the hundreds/thousands he's dragged to the Island under the worst conditions and then frowned upon when the result wasn't Utopia).    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Examples such as the amoralist have led internalists to posit more moderate, defeasible, but still necessary connections between moral judgments and motivation (Korsgaard 1986; Dreier 1990.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys in White Suits] Reference

Debates between internalists and externalists often center on the figure of the “amoralist” ” the person who apparently makes moral judgments, while remaining wholly unmoved to comply with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Motivation] Reference

But then if connectedness holds interpersonally, the rational amoralist must also extend that desire for justifiability to all those with whom he is psychologically connected, and this will take him a long ways towards having the moral motivation at the heart of contractualism (for this sort of argument, see D. Shoemaker 2000; for the basic view of contractualism presupposed here, see Scanlon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference