Again, the whole point of this task/project/thing is to come up with an explicit theory to act as an external standard for ethics. Ethical theories are maps of the evaluative-under-full-information-and-individual+social-rationality territory.
Again, the whole point of this task/project/thing is to come up with an explicit theory to act as an external standard for ethics.
And that is the whole point of moral philosophy..… so it’s sounding like a moot distinction.
Ethical theories are maps of the evaluative-under-full-information-and-individual+social-rationality territory.
You don’t like the word intuition, but the fact remains that while you are building your theory, you will have to check it against humans ability to give answers without knowing how they arrived at them. Otherwise you end up with a clear, consistent theory that nobody finds persuasive.
Again, the whole point of this task/project/thing is to come up with an explicit theory to act as an external standard for ethics. Ethical theories are maps of the evaluative-under-full-information-and-individual+social-rationality territory.
And that is the whole point of moral philosophy..… so it’s sounding like a moot distinction.
You don’t like the word intuition, but the fact remains that while you are building your theory, you will have to check it against humans ability to give answers without knowing how they arrived at them. Otherwise you end up with a clear, consistent theory that nobody finds persuasive.
Such a territory does not exist, therefore it’s not territory.
You’re going to have to explain how “thoughts and feelings that people will or would have in certain scenarios” fails to be territory.
By not existing.