We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
We ought to follow GR because an ideal observer would desire this. <=> ideal-observer-theory justification
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
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
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others. <=> self-interested-desire justification
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
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
We follow GR because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.
Our judgment in favor of GR expresses (our actual or ideal) feelings in favor of it. <=> emotivism justification