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Single Idea 6177

[filed under theme 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 Ref

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.

The 16 ideas from 'Externalism'

6177 Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people [Rowlands]
6178 It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity [Rowlands]
6158 Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars [Rowlands]
6156 The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space [Rowlands]
6155 Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands]
6154 It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack [Rowlands]
6157 Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds [Rowlands]
6152 Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands]
6159 Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world [Rowlands]
6161 Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding [Rowlands]
6163 If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected [Rowlands]
6167 Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states [Rowlands]
6168 The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands]
6170 Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79 [Rowlands]
6173 Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds [Rowlands]
6174 If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do [Rowlands]