PHIL221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Motivated Reasoning, Social Intuitionism, John Rawls
12 Apr 2015
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Your intuitions often come from your social world and are developed in a social context. Intuitions - the kind of thing that you come to not through the conscious application of principles (killing is wrong) Wants to avoid getting into circular logic (explication - telling that lie is wrong, that lie is wrong, that lie is wrong the explication would be: lying is wrong) When you carry on an experiment - when you get a result it is the way it is regardless if you were 100% conceived that you will get a different answer. It doesn"t matter because the facts provide a check on the principle and show us that we were wrong. Made by competent judges who are impartial and knowledgable (and intelligent) Not supposed to be made when in a highly emotional state. Moral judgments are made intuitively (remind you of mackie??) 1: post-hoc reasoning link, reasoned persuasion, social persuasion, reasoned judgment, private re ection.
