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AdvantagesGetting Started
- Non-naturalistic morality is not dependent on the natural world and ethical principles are independent of natural events. The theory NOT GUILTY OF NATURALISTIC FALLACAY
- WHAT IS RIGHT OR GOOD IS WHAT LEADS TO INTUITIVELY MORAL END: IT IS RELATIVISTIC there fore the only thing left to discuss is what action does this more
- human beings are thought to have an innatemoral sennse independent of personal experience or circumstanced
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Disadvantages
- no answer as what to if our intuition conflicts ,CONFUSION, NOT CLEAR
- two people may have different intuitions about the same dilemma how do we decide what is correct , again UNCLEAR
- Richard Norman on Moore M:intuition=belief someone know to be true but with no reasons. R may agree that there are some truths for which no further reasons can be given but at least say something about how you know them.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein mistake to think words have meaning by standing for objects M;"good" like a certain property cant be empirical or natural conclusion :it must be "Non natural" Witt: GOOD find meaning just investigate "its use in the language" as with"a large class of cases in which we employ the word of meaning
- intuitionists fail to explain why intuition is universally applicable to ethics. no intrinsic reason why human intuition should be taken as the basis of moral judgement . other human instincts guilt pain pleasure etc Moore NEVER ADEQUATELY EXPLAINED WHY ONE PARTICULAR AND FALLIBLE HUMAN EXPERIENCE SHOULD FORM THE SOLE BASIS OF MORALITY
- uk study showed more than half a jury thought it was okay for a carer to persuede an old person to change their will so it benefit them PROOF WE DONT ALL HAVE AN INNATE MORAL SENSE.
- PRESENTS ETHICAL DISCOURSE AS AN ESSENTIALLY IRRATIONAL ACTIVITY due to emphasis on the expressive use of ethical language Hare ethicical discourse must be presented as a less manipulative and more rational activity
- attempts to move from i think X is right to it is right to do X by appealing to personal introspection Vardy no/little reason to maintain this will succeed in ethic unlike other fields. uses example of water boiling at 100 . you SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO REASONS FOR OPINIONS OTHERWISE JUST EXPRESSING PERSONAL OPINION
- NO LINK BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT A PERSON OUGHT TO DO J.L Mackie argues morality not about just what a person intuitively believes is right but doing something about it .DOES NOT EXPECT THE AGENT TO FOLLOW THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES THAT ARE COME UP WITH.
- Vardy : all moral intutionists seem to appeal, although not overtly, to some ultimate sense of what is right and wrong.NONE OF THEM MAINTAIN SOMETHING IS RIGHT just because SOMEONE INTUITS IT.they wouldn't accept that murder is permissible for a particular person because they believe it is.
- CANT AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES moore hold principle of utility ross takes a gerontological approach . shouldn't our intuitions agree if its "universal"
- implies some universal morality which means that all human beings know by intuition that "the most valuable things which we know or can imagine ... are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects" however , someone could disagree with these self- evident to me is not what is self evident to you "
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