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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / e. Ethical cognitivism

5355	Cognitivists think morals are discovered by reason [Flanagan]
	Full Idea: Cognitivists think morals are discovered by reason.
	From: Owen Flanagan (The Problem of the Soul [2002], p.301n)
	A reaction: I take cognitivism to be (strictly) the view that morals are knowable in principle. Our intellects might not be up to the task (and so we might have to ask the gods what is right). There is also the possibility that morals might be known by intuition.