Modern de-ontology

Question 1

William ross

Answer 1

-Morality should be based on our moral intuitions and what we believe to be right

-We have an innate sense of actions we know to be morally good we should peform, these are called prima facie duties, binding duties which are equal to each other.

-Some prima facies are self evident, e.g duties of truth, fidelity, justice and fairness we know we should perform

Question 2

Prima facie duties

Answer 2

Duties we know to be right and we have an obligation to follow including truth, fidelity, justice etc, an action is moral if it follows these duties, e.g telling the truth is moral, lying is not moral

Question 3

Evaluation of Ross’ theory:

Answer 3

Argues there is an objective morality we can know through intuition

-Does not explain where moral obligations come from

-Hard to know which duties to apply in which situation.