PHI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, Intuitionism, Kantian Ethics
17 Nov 2017
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D. ross" theory of prima facie duty (internet encyclopedia of. Ross"s ethical theory, commonly known as the theory of prima facie duties, is a deontological system with three key elements or basic principles: a. In the case of ross"s ethical theory, non-naturalism refers not only to this claim about the uniqueness and irreducibility of goodness and other moral properties but includes two other meta-ethical claims (characteristic of moral realism and cognitivism) as well. In essence ross claims that whenever we make a judgment such as capital punishment is wrong or. Same sex marriages are bad we are stating propositions that are either true or false. They are true if they correspond to actual, real-world states of affairs and false if they do not. Furthermore, since these statements purport to describe objective reality, they are essentially different from and cannot be reduced to statements that merely express personal emotions or describe states of mind.
