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Formal ethics arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary language meaning of the phrase "reasonable moral belief."
{ 2 } - starting with the requirement to be informed and consistent -- and then repeatedly asking "What additional requirements would we (insofar as we approximate to satisfying the requirements generated so far) want people to satisfy when they deliberate about how to act?"
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "reasonable" moral belief.
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Formal ethics arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary language meaning of the phrase "reasonable moral belief."
{ 2 } - starting with the requirement to be informed and consistent -- and then repeatedly asking "What additional requirements would we (insofar as we approximate to satisfying the requirements generated so far) want people to satisfy when they deliberate about how to act?"
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "reasonable" moral belief.
Ordinary language isn't clear about what content (if any) it includes in this phrase. Even if it were, it's unclear why this should be the criterion of moral wisdom; couldn't society build into the phrase "reasonable moral belief" a sadly deficient approach to how to make moral judgments?
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Formal ethics arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary language meaning of the phrase "reasonable moral belief."
{ 2 } - starting with the requirement to be informed and consistent -- and then repeatedly asking "What additional requirements would we (insofar as we approximate to satisfying the requirements generated so far) want people to satisfy when they deliberate about how to act?"
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "reasonable" moral belief.
Thus our view of moral rationality can grow and develop as we become wiser and more sophisticated in our thinking.
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Formal ethics arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary language meaning of the phrase "reasonable moral belief."
{ 2 } - starting with the requirement to be informed and consistent -- and then repeatedly asking "What additional requirements would we (insofar as we approximate to satisfying the requirements generated so far) want people to satisfy when they deliberate about how to act?"
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "reasonable" moral belief.
This isn't the method that formal ethics uses. Rather, it appeals to a sequence of rational choices which can become progressively more refined.
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