Renewing Moral Intuitionism
Abstract According to moral intuitionism, moral properties are objective, but our cognitions of them are not always based on premises. In this paper, I develop a novel version of moral intuitionism and argue that this new intuitionism is worthy of closer attention. The intuitionistic theory I propos...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2009
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Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2009, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 440-463 |
| Further subjects: | B
Self-evidence
B MORAL KNOWLEDGE B Robert Audi B W.D. ROSS B MORAL INTUITIONISM B PROTOTYPES |
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| Summary: | Abstract According to moral intuitionism, moral properties are objective, but our cognitions of them are not always based on premises. In this paper, I develop a novel version of moral intuitionism and argue that this new intuitionism is worthy of closer attention. The intuitionistic theory I propose, while inspired by the early twentieth-century intuitionism of W.D. Ross, avoids the alleged errors of his view. Furthermore, unlike Robert Audi's contemporary formulation of intuitionism, my theory has the resources to account for the non-inferential character of particular, as opposed to merely general, moral beliefs. I achieve this result by avoiding the appeal to self-evidence to explain the possibility of non-inferential moral knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5243 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/174046809X12464327133096 |