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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
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Formal ethics tries to justify its principles as expressing
{ 1 } - analytic principles about what is required to follow an ideal of moral consistency.
{ 2 } - social conventions.
{ 3 } - moral feelings that we have.
{ 4 } - God's will.
{ 5 } - categorical imperatives based on reason.
{ 6 } - the will of an ideal observer.
{ 7 } - any of these -- formal ethics is neutral on how to justify its principles.
Formal ethics doesn't take a stand on how to analyze or justify moral judgments. Instead, it shows how philosophers of various perspectives might accept the same formal ethical principles and yet disagree on their meaning and justification.
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