PHIL 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Moral Reasoning, Nipple, A Priori And A Posteriori
25 May 2016
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Two ways of reasoning in support of justifying particular moral claims (i. e. , claims about particular actions being morally right or wrong, or about particular actions that one morally ought or ought not to do): By appeal to other particular moral claims. Fred ought not to lie to his mom about the tuition. If fred ought not to lie to his mom about the tuition, then you ought not to lie to your mom. You ought not to lie to your mom about the tuition. about the tuition. To lie to your mom about the tuition is to treat her merely as a means to your own ends. You ought not to lie to your mom about the tuition. General moral principle no action that treats another human being merely as a means to an end ought to be done. Philosophers who study morality ethicists have distinguished two basic kinds of general moral principle.
