Intuitionism- A good way of understanding ethics?
Intuitionism- A good way of understanding ethics? Basic intuitionism is based on the premise/idea that moral propositions are self-evident . What does it mean for a proposition to be self-evident? A self-evident proposition is one that doesn’t require evidence, justification or an argument to be accepted (this does not mean that there is not evidence for this though). Therefore, when intuitionists argue that moral propositions are self-evident, they argue that we know some things are wrong, and we do not need justification to argue that it is wrong because the proposition that “murder is wrong” is self-evident. This means that we can recognise a “good” or a “bad” action when we see it, but that we cannot define what “good” is. For example, the intuitionist would not need a reason to understand the holocaust was a morally abhorrent thing because the intuitionist argues that we all know what is wrong. Some significant intuitionists- Price Price argues that ...