7. Meta ethics: Intuitionism: Henry Sidgwick and overall weaknesses of intuitionism
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- 7. Intuitionism: Henry Sidgwick and overall weaknesses of intuitionism
- Henry Sidgwick
- Humans know right/wrong because of moral judgement
- Self-evident
- Theory that ethics is not based on any unifying principle but on human intuition
- common sense
- Humans know right/wrong because of moral judgement
- Weaknesses
- Moore does not explain nor prove how we know good through intuition alone and not through senses
- How can we be sure our intuitions are correct
- Since we cannot use sense experience how can we decide between intuitions?
- What happens if these intuitions conflict?
- Contradicted by Ross
- Moral intuitions seem to come from social conditioning and differ between cultures
- Had to see how these are a reliable guide to objective ethical truths
- J. L. Mackie
- He argues that morality is not just about what a person believes is intuitively right but is about doing something about it
- Henry Sidgwick
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