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We ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory justification
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We ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory 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 ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory justification
We ought to be conscientious because society demands this (perhaps for the sake of its survival). <=> cultural-relativism justification
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We ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory 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 ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory justification
We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that we ought to be conscientious. <=> intuitionism justification
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We ought to be conscientious because God desire this.
{ 1 } - prescriptivism justification
{ 2 } - cultural-relativism justification
{ 3 } - Kantian justification
{ 4 } - intuitionism justification
{ 5 } - divine-command-theory justification
We ought to be conscientious because God desire this. <=> divine-command-theory justification
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