Single Idea 6177

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism]

Full Idea

The faculty of moral intuition seems to be unevenly distributed between people.

Gist of Idea

Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people

Source

Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.11)

Book Reference

Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.205


A Reaction

This would be a good argument if it was thought that the source of moral intuitions was divine, but people vary enormously in their intuitions about maths, about character, about danger. If you believe in any intuition at all, you must accept its variety.