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Our text arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary meaning of the phrase "rational moral belief."
{ 2 } - seeing what further rationality conditions grow out of our consistency requirements.
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "rational" moral belief.
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Our text arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary meaning of the phrase "rational moral belief."
{ 2 } - seeing what further rationality conditions grow out of our consistency requirements.
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "rational" moral belief.
Our 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 "rational moral belief" a sadly deficient approach to how to make moral judgments?
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Our text arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary meaning of the phrase "rational moral belief."
{ 2 } - seeing what further rationality conditions grow out of our consistency requirements.
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "rational" moral belief.
Our rationality conditions (which describe we ought ideally to form our moral beliefs) grow out of our consistency requirements. For example, since we demand that others try to be informed when they deliberate about how to act toward us, we will, if consistent, demand this of ourselves too. So we'll hold the general principle that people ought to be informed when making moral judgments.
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Our text arrives at its conditions of moral rationality by
{ 1 } - looking at what is built into the ordinary meaning of the phrase "rational moral belief."
{ 2 } - seeing what further rationality conditions grow out of our consistency requirements.
{ 3 } - appealing to intuitions about what constitutes a "rational" moral belief.
The text doesn't appeal to this. Instead, it appeals to consistency requirements.
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