Major, usually implicit disagreements regard whether morality is supposed to serve as a decision system, a set of constraints on a decision system, or a set of reasons that should influence a person along with prudential, honor, spontaneity, authenticity, and other such types of reasons.
If morality is being used to refer to all these different concepts, what exactly do they have in common? Haphazard guess: they’re all sets of rules for when you should feel guilty, innocent, shameful, or prideful. What unites various conceptions of “morality” is not some deep philosophical underpinning, but rather the emotions being governed.
If morality is being used to refer to all these different concepts, what exactly do they have in common? Haphazard guess: they’re all sets of rules for when you should feel guilty, innocent, shameful, or prideful. What unites various conceptions of “morality” is not some deep philosophical underpinning, but rather the emotions being governed.