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Our prima facie moral duties are most like
{ 1 } - laws ordained by God.
{ 2 } - statements about what we must to do achieve ends that we desire.
{ 3 } - axioms of mathematics or logic.
{ 4 } - rules or laws that we stipulate to govern our behavior.
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Our prima facie moral duties are most like
{ 1 } - laws ordained by God.
{ 2 } - statements about what we must to do achieve ends that we desire.
{ 3 } - axioms of mathematics or logic.
{ 4 } - rules or laws that we stipulate to govern our behavior.
Ross doesn't hold the divine command theory.
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Our prima facie moral duties are most like
{ 1 } - laws ordained by God.
{ 2 } - statements about what we must to do achieve ends that we desire.
{ 3 } - axioms of mathematics or logic.
{ 4 } - rules or laws that we stipulate to govern our behavior.
This makes moral judgments into "hypothetical imperatives" -- statements of the form "If you want to achieve end E then you must do means M." This is not Ross's view.
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Our prima facie moral duties are most like
{ 1 } - laws ordained by God.
{ 2 } - statements about what we must to do achieve ends that we desire.
{ 3 } - axioms of mathematics or logic.
{ 4 } - rules or laws that we stipulate to govern our behavior.
Ross says that the basic moral principles are self-evident truths.
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Our prima facie moral duties are most like
{ 1 } - laws ordained by God.
{ 2 } - statements about what we must to do achieve ends that we desire.
{ 3 } - axioms of mathematics or logic.
{ 4 } - rules or laws that we stipulate to govern our behavior.
This would be cultural relativism if "we" is the community -- or subjectivism if "we" is each person individually.
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