PHIL 103 Lecture 17: TIMMONS 3
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Timmons 3: coping with many moral theories. The better a theory"s principles in proving such explanations, the better the theory. According to the practical aim of moral theory, we want moral principles that will help guide our moral deliberations and subsequent choices. Corresponding to this aim is the principle of. Practical guidance: a moral theory should feature principles that are useful in guiding moral deliberation toward correct or justified moral verdicts about particular issues which we can then use to help guide choice. The better a theory"s principles are in providing practical guidance the better the theory . First, it can do so by providing rigorous articulations of common ideas about morality.
