PHIL 338 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moral Skepticism
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Reasoning that begins with particular moral judgments is of two kinds: (1) defeating reasons. In one kind, a judgment about one or more particular cases leads to. Giving up a previously accepted norm or principle. This was illustrated by the previous example. (2) supporting reasons. In the second kind, one begins from particular moral judgments and tries to find the moral norms or principles that best explain our particular moral. The cases support the norms or principles that best explain them. Finding a new norm or principle that explains both particular moral judgments. This question suggests that there might be a more complex principle than p1 that would explain why killing is usually wrong but not wrong in self-defense. Consider the principle that everyone has a right to life (i. e. , a right not to be killed). This principle is sometimes interpreted as though it is just another way of asserting p1, that it is always wrong to kill another person.
