INTUITIONISM Flashcards
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What is Intuitionism
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- it argues that moral truhts do not need further justification
2
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Intuitionism holds that there are ______terms.
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indefinable
3
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Intuitionism is also known as _____. It believes that ____ do not depend on human thinking or feeling.
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“common-sense morality”
- objective moral truths
4
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Three claims of Intuitionism
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- good is indefinable
- there are objective moral truths
- the basic moral truths are self-evident to a mature mind
5
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What is naturalism? What theories fall under it?
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- it suggests that good can be defined using ideas from sense experience
- cultural relativism and subjectivism
6
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A law by David Hume
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Hume’s law, states taht we cannot deduce an “ought” statement from an “is”
7
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What does objective moral truth means?
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- the kind of truth that do not depend on human thinking or geeling
8
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What are self-evident truths
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- truths that do not require no further proof or justification
9
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Self-evident principles of morality requires ____ and ____
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rellection and intellectual maturity
10
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Against Intuitionism. (3)
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- in math, self-evidenr truths are agreed by experts
- in ethics, self-evident principles are vague and disputed
- moral intuitions can come from social conditioning
