RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
October 4, 2021 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2021 at 5:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Maybe give it a second thought. The op was describing moral views as a product of cultural norms, and how this is an issue for ethical theories like non natural realism. With respect to lincoln - both those views we would describe as good today and those we might describe as bad today were, as you yourself note, influenced by the circumstances of his birth and upbringing. All of this, and not just the one set, were his moral intuitions (or..at least would be, in that view).
Our societies produce complex moral characters with conflicting imperatives and varying categories of intent. It's fortunate that lincoln indulged in one set over the other, but the question at the heart is whether or not this intuition is reliable at all. The counter examples of his bad faith or ethics (and, obviously we're talking about a person here) stand as cautionary examples.
Our societies produce complex moral characters with conflicting imperatives and varying categories of intent. It's fortunate that lincoln indulged in one set over the other, but the question at the heart is whether or not this intuition is reliable at all. The counter examples of his bad faith or ethics (and, obviously we're talking about a person here) stand as cautionary examples.
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