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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

    { 1 } - utilitarianism justification
    { 2 } - Kantian justification
    { 3 } - idealistic-desire justification
    { 4 } - prescriptivism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

We ought to be conscientious because this benefits both the individual and the larger society. <=> utilitarianism justification

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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

    { 1 } - utilitarianism justification
    { 2 } - Kantian justification
    { 3 } - idealistic-desire justification
    { 4 } - prescriptivism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

Since an ought judgment is a truth that logically entails the corresponding imperative, such judgments have a rational authority. If we accept an ought judgment but don't act on it, then we are logically inconsistent and violate rationality. <=> Kantian justification

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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

    { 1 } - utilitarianism justification
    { 2 } - Kantian justification
    { 3 } - idealistic-desire justification
    { 4 } - prescriptivism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing. <=> idealistic-desire justification

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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

    { 1 } - utilitarianism justification
    { 2 } - Kantian justification
    { 3 } - idealistic-desire justification
    { 4 } - prescriptivism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

Since an ought judgment is a prescription that logically entails the corresponding imperative (and not a factual claim), ought judgments logically commit us to action under pain of inconsistency. Thus conscientiousness is justified as a species of logical consistency. <=> prescriptivism justification

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We strive for conscientiousness because it promotes our desire to be a morally good person -- and because this requires that we try to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.

    { 1 } - utilitarianism justification
    { 2 } - Kantian justification
    { 3 } - idealistic-desire justification
    { 4 } - prescriptivism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

Our judgments in favor of conscientiousness express our (actual or ideal) feelings in favor of it. <=> emotivism justification

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