GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
Since an ought judgment is a universalizable prescription (and not a factual claim), "I ought to do A to X" logically commits us to the particular prescription "If the situation were reversed, let X do A to me." Thus violations of GR are violations of logical consistency. <=> prescriptivism justification
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
We follow GR because we care about others and hence want to treat them in a way that respects their inherent dignity as persons. <=> idealistic-desire justification
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
We ought to follow GR because, as all the major world religions recognize, God desires that we follow GR. <=> divine-command-theory justification
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that we ought to follow GR. <=> intuitionism justification
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society.
GR is justified because it can help us to live together more harmoniously and thus can make life better for everyone. So GR is a useful rule for promoting the good of society. <=> utilitarianism justification