In Defense of Prima Facie Duties
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چکیده
Ethical intuitionists like W.D. Ross adopt the common sense view that there is an irreducible plurality of types of ethically relevant considerations. They furthermore hold that there is no explicit method determining how to move from facts about which considerations are present to a conclusion about what it would be right to do. In order to systematize our moral reasoning, ethical intuitionists provide an account of the types of considerations that are ethically relevant. To do that, they introduce a list of prima facie duties which always count in favor or against doing an action, even if their strength – that is, their ability to defeat other prima facie duties with an opposite normative valence – depends on circumstances.1 W.D. Ross counts duties of Vdelity, reparation, gratitude, justice, beneVcence, self-improvement and non-maleVcence among them.2
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