ABSTRACT
This chapter considers and answers two main objections to the entire project of the book. Some philosophers will deny that spirituality is necessary in moral life because reason is sufficient to motivate morality. The chapter argues that this response fails to appreciate the immense psychological obstacles to moral life. Others will say that the call for spirituality encourages an unhealthy obsession with morality that can manifest in either (1) a life-denying do-gooderism or (2) a dangerous fanaticism. The chapter argues the first obsession is not the result of spirituality and the second results from misdirected spiritual impulses. Instead, it is argued that each obsession is, in its own way, actually an expression of the spirituality problem.
