Formal Ethics 4 - Impartiality

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial. <=> intuitionism justification

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

Violating impartiality is inherently bad and thus ought other-things-equal to be avoided. <=> prima-facie-duty justification

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

We strive for impartiality 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

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

We ought to be impartial because society demands this (perhaps for the sake of its own survival). <=> cultural-relativism justification

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We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial.

Our judgments in favor of impartiality express our (actual or ideal) feelings in favor of it. <=> emotivism justification

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