Intuitionism - H.A. Prichard

H.A. Prichard argued that to justify moral obligation by reducing it to an interest or something else was a mistake - moral obligation presents itself directly to our intuition

Prichard thought that there were two different kinds of thought: intuition and thinking

• Reason (thinking) collects together the facts concerned and intuition determines which course to follow - for example, in deciding whether to have an abortion, reason collectd all the data on the nature of the abortion and intuition determines what we should do
• Ethical dilemmas are about making a choice between different…