Engel’s Coherence Grounding Justification Is Not Successful

Introduction In his paper, Coherentism and the Epistemic Justification of Moral Beliefs, Mylan Engel Jr. argues for what I refer to as Coherence Grounding Justification (CGJ), “that grounding particular moral judgments on our core moral convictions and other core nonmoral beliefs is, indeed, a legitimate way to justify moral judgments.”[1] To demonstrate this, he uses an example,