COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 65: Intuitionism, Brussels Sprout

• School: University of Arkansas-Monticello
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 2273
• Professor: Key

Document Summary

First, moral judgments are only valid when they are inferred from other facts or beliefs. Intuitionist or other noninferential approaches fail to guide action because they don"t prescribe a course of action in conflict scenarios. Premise (2) is denied by moral intuitionists, who claim that some moral beliefs are justified independent of any ability to infer them from any other beliefs what is believed is then sometimes called self-evident or evident by itself. Moral skeptics see this as dogmatism, and dogmatism can be used on both sides of any issue. Moreover, nick [i] could be noninferentially justified in believing that it is morally wrong to eat artichokes or to step on cracks in sidewalks. Moral skeptics claim that there is no way to break such impasses or to avoid such absurdities if any noninferential justification is admitted.