Moral reasoning
Backing a moral judgement with reasons others can share, check and weigh. A feeling that something is wrong is a useful alarm, but not yet a reason.
Depth 1 · Foundation
You can tell a feeling from a reason, and set out a moral judgement as reasons and a conclusion.
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Foundation
You can tell a feeling from a reason, and set out a moral judgement as reasons and a conclusion.
Your path here
What's still between you and Moral reasoning, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.
- 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
- 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
- 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 13What science can't answerDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
- 14Moral questionsDepth 1 · Foundation · Ethics
- 15Moral reasoningDepth 1 · Foundation · Ethics
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- Harm and consentHarm is one of the clearest reasons in ethics.
- Honesty and white liesA white lie is a case where reasons pull both ways.
- PromisesA promise is one of the clearest reasons there is.
- RelativismRelativism is a view about whether moral reasons can be better or worse.
- Treating like cases alikeConsistency is a test for the reasons in a moral judgement.
- Virtue and characterAsking what a good person would do is a third way of reasoning.