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The result is not merely moral confusion. It is conceptual impoverishment at the deepest level. Beauty, morality, good, evil, worth, excellence and degradation continue to appear everywhere, saturating cultural judgment with an almost inexhaustible abundance of evaluations, while the objective referents of those evaluations remain insufficiently distinguished from the modes through which they are perceived. Civilisation becomes extraordinarily proficient at having judgments while progressively less certain about what, precisely, its judgments are judgments of.